PREEACE. 
In presenting this little work to the public, I hope and 
trust it may be the means of assisting my fellow gardeners and 
farmers, as well as private parties throughout the length and 
breadth of our land, to grow this most delicious vegetable, 
perhaps not in all places quite up to the high standard of per- 
fection reached by the growers of eastern Long Island, a section 
seemingly favored with soil and climate especially adapted to 
its cultivation, yet to that extent which may prove pleasant to 
the amateur, and profitable to the professional tiller of the soil. 
I invite its careful perusal and the following of its teach- 
ings, at least to a limited extent, by market-gardeners who are 
near cities or large villages where a market for the product 
can be found at remunerative prices, and also by amateurs who 
take pride in a first-class vegetable garden. This work will be 
found at variance, upon this subject, with all the standard 
horticultural works which have preceded it, not excepting my 
own work “Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing” which was 
first published in 1872, and for this I have no apology to offer 
except to say that Cauliflower culture with us was in its infancy 
at that time, but it has been wonderfully developed. “We 
live to learn,” and within the past fourteen years I have had 
opportunities to study this crop not enjoyed by any American 
writer on this subject. | 
I have grown many acres myself, and have been surround- 
ed by hundreds of acres, and have experimented and had 
many of our growers experiment, until I think I am _ thorough- 
ly acquainted with the cultivation of Cauliflower at least so far 
as it is practiced on Long Island. | 
| THE AUTHOR. 
