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These directions are equally applicable to the Cabbage 
crop. | 
SEED. Seedsmen and gardeners have been obliged to 
depend upon Europe for their supplies, our American growers 
having met with but little success in the production of the seed, 
Within a few years a friend of mine, a market gardener, has 
been successful in growing seed from the finest grades of 
Erfurts. So far he has been able to grow for me all that I 
require in my wholesale trade, and with new discoveries made 
from year to year, and others catching on to the business I 
have no doubt the time will come when American seed will 
supersede the foreign grown, and be sold almost exclusively by 
our seedsmen. In the hands of this man by seeding only the 
extra heads even the finest strains have been materially im- 
proved and our growers are fast adapting the American grown 
seed, and in fact some will not have any other, and I am happy 
to say that the finest grades can be grown and sold in this 
country below first cost in Europe. 
Cooxinc. Perchance some may be induced to grow Cauli- 
flowers for their own use and having grown them, the mistress 
or the cook may not understand cooking them, therefore a few 
hints here may not be amiss. 
Use a porcelain lined, or similarly guarded pot in which 
to boil them, as one of plain iron will give them a dark color. 
Put a liberal allowance of salt in the water which must be 
thoroughly boiling before the Cauliflower is placed therein. 
Boil it rapidly about fifteen minutes and not over twenty mun- 
utes for the largest heads; there is more danger of boiling too 
much than too little; a little sweet milk in the water has a 
tendency to keep the heads white. Should be served with 
drawn butter or may be eaten with plain butter and vinegar. 
To pickle them break the head apart as small as you please, 
place in boiling salted water for three minutes, remove from the 
water and place in cold cider vinegar, with spices to suit the 
taste. 
ConcLusion. When I commenced this ‘work I had no idea 
it would assume the proportions it has, and I have curtailed 
wherever I could and still make my meaning plain, for my aim 
has been to get up a treatise which could be published and 
sold at a price within the reach of all, and yet contain positive 
and general information. 
There are many points in this little work which may be ap- 
plied in the cultivation of Cabbages, which may be grown by 
exactly the same method as Cauliflower, requiring the same 
treatment, fertilizing, &c., except that stable manure may be 
