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 may be started In Autumn In a cold frame, or In early Spring in a hot bed. P^or main crop, 

 Summer and Autumn, the seed should be sown in May or June. A packet will produce about 150 plants, an ounce about 3000 plants; \^ pound 

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



m Early Snowball Cauliflower 



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 

 c(mditions 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. Tlie plants ai-e of compact 

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

 the same space of ground than can be procured fi'om most other sorts, 

 excepting Maule'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 ounce, 85 cents; ounce, $3.0O; 

 quarter pound, $8.90; pound, $3!2.50, postpaid. 



165 Dry Weather Cauliflower 



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 pro- 

 duces a large, solid, pure white head, maturing in about 95 

 days, a little later than Maule's Prize Earliest. It is in all 

 respects a first-class cauliflower, but is especially and pecu- 

 liarly adapted to dry situations and to resisting the efTects of 

 droughts. It will also do well in moist or wet seasons, making 

 heads equal to any. Excellent home or market sort. 



PacUet, 20 cents; quarter ounce, $1.00; ounce, $3.50; 

 quarter pound, $9.00; pound, $35.00, postpaid. 



167 Earliest Dwarf Erfurt Cauliflower 



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, $2.50; 

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



166 Maule*s Always Heads Cauliflower 



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, 85 cents; ounce, $3.00; 

 quarter pound, $8.50; pound, $32.50, postpaid. 



