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foreign markets a very tall, late, and leafy variety is sometimes 

 offered under the name of Algiers Cauliflower, but it is really the 

 Autumn Giant Cauliflower, a very interesting variety', but entirely 

 different from the true Algiers Cauliflower here described. 



Early London, or Early Dutch, Cauliflower.— A large and 

 hardy variety, suitable for field culture. Stem long and rather 

 slender ; leaves long, not very broad, gray-green, and undulated. 

 This is one of the kinds of Cauliflower which have the midrib of the 

 leaf bare at the base for the greater part of its length. The head 

 is hard and firm, but not very large. It is a half-late variety, and, 



Late Asiatic Cauliflower. — A vigorous kind, with numerous 

 large, undulated, rather dark green leaves, and a shorter stem than 

 the preceding variety, like which it is hardy and rather late. It is 

 suitable for growing in the open ground, and should not be sown 

 later than May, to bring in a crop in the autumn. This is a large 

 and very highly esteemed late variety. 



Stadtholder Cauliflower. — Very nearly allied to the Early 

 Dutch Cauliflower, this variety exhibits almost the same charac- 

 teristics of growth, and its difference is that it is a few days later. 

 In this respect it is intermediate between the Early Dutch and the 

 Walcheren Cauliflower. The stem is shorter than that of the other 

 Dutch kinds, and the leaves are more undulated at the edges. 



Walcheren Cauliflower, or Walcheren Broccoli. — This is the 

 latest of all Cauliflowers and one of the hardiest, so that it may be 

 regarded as intermediate between the Cauliflowers, properly so- 

 called, and the Broccolis, among which it is not unusual to find it 

 classed. It has a long, stout stem, and numerous long, stiff, and 



Early London, or Early Dutch, Cauliflower 

 (yV natural size). 



in its native country 

 succeeds better than the 

 French kinds. It is grown 

 on a large scale about 

 Leyden, whence great 

 quantities of it are ex- 

 ported to England to 

 compete in the London 

 markets with the Cauli- 

 flowers sent from the 

 French coasts, especially 

 from Brittany. The name 

 of Dwarf Dutch Cauli- 

 flower given to it by the 

 Germans is only by way 

 of comparison with other 

 Dutch varieties, for it is 

 a tall kind compared with 

 the French varieties. 



