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HOW TO GROTF 



order to preserve the beautiful white color and 

 the tenderness of the buds. Left on the root in 

 the field, this variety, my Bornholm friend writes, 

 will stand two or three degrees of frost without 

 injury.* 



CAULIFLOWERS FOE WINTER USE, 



A practical and convenient method of preserving 

 cauliflowers until late in the winter is to make beds 

 of moist sand, four inches deep, in a cool room, 

 protected against frost, and the floor of which had 

 better be of asphalt, cement or the like. Toward 

 the close of the fall the plants are cut off with a 

 piece of stalk about three or four inches in length, 

 which are stuck into the sand bed, after all the 

 leaves have been removed, with the exception of 

 the inner course, which must be pretty closely cut 

 down, and the heads covered with flower pots, 

 A space of twelve feet square will in this manner 

 contain 250 plants or upward, as the size may be, 

 when placed close together. 



None but the best matured, cured and kept seeds of 

 the most select stock will produce plants of the highest 

 perfection. This is a self-evident truth, that holds 

 more or less throughout the whole range of plants 

 subject to cultivation in garden or field ; but in no 

 other case is it of greater importance to act upon 



* We have ordered some of this seed from Mr. Pedersen, and shall 

 have it thoroughly tested, both in our own trial grounds and by growers 

 in the famous cauliflower district of Eastern Long Island. The result 

 we hope to announce in Burpee's Farm Annual fop. 1389. — Ed. 



