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cept that it may be planted closer, say from one and a 

 half to two feet apart. 



CAULIFLOWER, (Brassica oleracea var.) 



There is quite an ambition among amateur gardeners 

 to raise early cauliflower, but as the conditions necessary 

 to success with this are not quite so easy to command as 

 with most other vegetables, probably not one in three 



Fig. 73.— CAULIFLOWEB. 



who try it succeed. In England, and most places on the 

 continent of Europe, it is the most valued of all vegeta- 

 bles, and is grown there nearly as easily as early cabbages. 

 But it must be remembered that the temperature there is 

 on the average ten degrees lower at the time it matures, 

 (June), than with us ; besides their atmosphere is much 

 more humid, two conditions essential to its proper devel- 

 opment. I will briefly state how early cauliflowers can 

 be most successfully grown here. First, the soil must 

 be well broken, and pulverized by spading to at least a 

 foot in depth, mixing through it a layer of three or four 



