148 Home Vegetable Gardening 



Oxheart and Chantenay, will give better satisfaction. 

 If there is any choice in quality, I should award it to 

 Chantenay. 



Cauliflower: — There is hardly a seed catalogue 

 which does not contain its own special brand of the 

 very best and earliest cauliflower ever introduced. 

 These are for the most part selected strains of either 

 the old favorite, Henderson's Snowball, or the old 

 Early Dw^arf Erfurt. Snowball, and Burpee's Best 

 Early, which resembles it, are the best varieties I 

 have ever grown for spring or autumn. They are 

 more likely to head, and of much finer quality than 

 any of the large late sorts. Where climatic condi- 

 tions are not favorable to growing cauliflower, and 

 in dry sections, Dry-w^eather is the most certain to 

 form heads. 



Celery: — For the home garden the dwarf-grow- 

 ing, ''self-blanching" varieties of celery are much to 

 be preferred. White Plume and Golden Self-blanch- 

 ing are the best. The former is the earliest celery 

 and of excellent quality, but not a good keeper. Re- 

 cent introductions in celery have proved very real 

 improvements. Perhaps the best of the newer sorts, 

 for home use, is Winter Queen, as it is more readily 

 handled than some of the standard market sorts. In 

 quality it has no superior. When put away for win- 

 ter properly, it will keep through April. 



Corn: — You will have to suit yourself about com. 



