The preceding will serve to show the magnitude ofthe Cauli- 
flower industry of eastern Long Island. The statement shows 
that during only two months—October and November 1885— 
96,680 barrels for market, besides 276,000 pounds in bulk to 
pickling factories, were shipped from stations on the main line 
of the L. I. R. R. and does not include shipments from stations 
on the south side branch nor from stations west of Manor on 
the main line, which with shipments by steamboat from the 
extreme east end would make an aggregate of fully 120,000 bar- 
rels sent to market from the Cauliflower district in the short 
space of two months, or perhaps 125,000 barrels during the 
entire season of 1885. 
_ While this immediate section seems to be the only one 
east of the Rocky mountains where this delicious vegetable is 
grown to any great extent, yet I have no doubt there are many 
other localities where it will succeed fully as well, and I can- 
didly believe that with proper culture and care it may be 
grown in many places, better of course in some localities than 
in others, for we find that even such common vegetables as 
Cabbage, Potatoes, etc., are materially influenced by various 
conditions of soil, climate, etc., and succeed only in proportion 
to the conditions and opportunities afforded, either existing 
naturally or artificially applied. 
In all my writings I have avoided so far as possible allu- 
sions to the possible or probable profits to be realized from 
any crop, as I know that all such statements are calculated to 
deceive, while they cannot by any possibility be given with any 
degree of accuracy, for the very reason that the fluctuations in 
the prices of garden crops are more marked than in any other 
direction, and with Cauliflower more so than any other vegeta- 
ble. Prices this year have ranged from ten dollars early in the 
season down to one dollar and twenty-five cents a barrel during 
the glut when large quantities were sold to picklers at one 
cent per pound for clean trimmed clear curd or flower. As a 
rule early and very late Caulifiowers bring the best prices. 
SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION. 
The season of 1885 has demonstrated, with us at least, 
that, all other conditions being favorable, Cauliflower can be 
