Never allow your Cauliflower plants to become dry. Keep plants well watered during a dry spell 



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CAUUFLOWER 



To obtain pure white heads, 

 tie or bend the leaves over 

 to keep out the light. 



Culture.— A gross feeder, and well repays heavy manuring and high culture. It succeeds best on well drained soil. Start plants In frame or 

 seed bed, and transplant. Seed for early cauliflower maybe started in Autumn In a cold frame, or In early Spring in a hotbed. For main crop, 

 Summer and Autumn, the seed should be sown In May or June. A packet will produce about 100 plants, an ounce about 30U0 plants; % pound 

 for an acre. Set the plants 2 to 3 feet apart each way. Ready to use in 85 to 120 days. 



U8 Early Snowball Cauliflower 



90 days. Large Solid White Heads. A Sure Cropper 



This standard variety Is known everywhere, either in the home garden 

 or with the market gardeners. Produces large solid white heads when 

 conditions are ordinarily favorable in about 90 days. Averages about 

 9 Inches and often attains a size of 12 inches in diameter. 



Being one of the earliest strains of cauliflower it becomes one of the 

 most popular sorts, either -for forcing under glass during winter and 

 spring, or for planting in the open ground. The plants are of compact 

 habit, which enables close planting, producing one-third more heads on 

 the same space of ground than can be procured from most other sorts, 

 excepting Jlaule's Prize Earliest. 



A desirable variety for sowing in the early Spring, as well as for late 

 Summer or for Fall use outdoors. 



Packet, 20 cents; quarter ouitce, 75 cents; ounce, $2.75; 

 quaiter pound, $8 00, pound, 9^30 00, postpaid. 



^ US Dry Weather Cauliflower 



95 days. Reaches Perfection When Ordinary Sorts Fail 



This desirable strain originated in Denmark, but has been fully tested 

 in America with the most favorable results. It produces a large, solid, 

 pure white head, maturing in about 95 days, a lltte later than Maule's 

 Prize Earliest. It Is in all respects a first-class cauliflower, but is espe- 

 cially and peculiarly adapted to dry situations and to resisting the ef- 

 fects of drought. It will also do well in moist or wet seasons, making 

 heads equal to any. Excellent home or market sort. 



Packet, 20 cents; qiiarter ounce, 75 cents; ounce, $2.75; 

 quarter pound, $§.00; pound, $30.00, postpaid. 



* 164 Maule's Prize Earliest Cauliflower 



85 days. The Earliest, Largest and Surest White Header Grown 



The earliest, finest and handsomest cauliflower, excelling all other 

 varieties in earllness, size and quality; undoubtedly the fluest and most 

 popular early cauliflower grown, either for the home garden or market. 

 See Specialty page 8 for Illustration and full description. 



Packet, 2.5 cents; quarter ounce, SI. 00; ounce, S.3.25; 

 quarter pound, S8.S0; pound, S33. 50, postpaid. 



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167 Earliest Dwarf Erfurt Cauliflower 



90 days. A Very Early. Reliable Sort 



This is a first-class cauliflower, and next to our Prize 

 Earliest and Snowball is the best, producing heads in 90 days. 

 It would be a leader, except for these two especially fine sorts; 

 nevertheless, it finds especial favor in many sections. 



Packet, 15 cents; quarter ounce, 75 cents; ounce, $2.75; 

 quarter pound, $8.00; pound, $30.00, postpaid. 



'^ 166 Maule's Always Heads Cauliflower 



90 days. The Popular and Perfect Header 



The name well Illustrates the strongest characteristic of this cauli- 

 flower, that in season andout of season it can always be depended upon 

 to make a head. Produces solid pure white heads in 90 days. It is an 

 absolutely unsurpassed strain. Excellent home garden or market sort. 

 Packet, 20 cents; quarter ounce, 75 cents; ounce, $2.75; 

 quarter pound, $8.00; pound, $30.00, postpaid. 



