GARDEN MANUAL FOR 
THE SOUTHERN STATES. 47 
Large Flat Brunswick. This is a late 
German variety, ifitroduced here many 
years ago by Richard Frotscher. It is an 
excellent kind, and when well headed up 
the shape of it is a true type of a pre- 
mium Flat Dutch Cabbage. 
Premium Late Drumhead. A standard 
late cabbage, with full, firm, solid, round 
heads of immense size and excellent 
flavor; a good keeping, excellent market 
variety. 
Improved Early Summer. This variety 
is deservedly popular with the market 
gardeners. It forms large, solid, round, 
flattened, compact heads of excellent 
quality. The heads average more than 
double the size of the Jersey Wakefield, 
while it matures only ten to twelve days 
later. The leaves turn into the heads so 
completely that about 9,000 plants may 
be set in an acre, making a very profit- 
able crop. 
CAULIELOWER. 
For Price List see Yellow Pages in Back of Book. 
Choufieur (Fr.), Blumenkohl (Ger.), Coliflor (Sp.), Cavolo Fiore (Ital.) 
CULTURE—This is one of the finest vegetables grown, and succeeds well 
in the South, especially in the vicinity of New Orleans. Large quantities are 
raised on the sea coast in the neighborhood of Barataria Bay. The two Italian 
varieties are of excellent quality, growing to a large size, and are considered 
hardier than the German and French kinds. The ground for planting Cauli- 
flower should be very rich. They thrive best in rich, sandy soil, and require 
plenty of moisture during the formation of the head. The Italian varieties 
should be sown from April to July; the latter month and June is the best time 
‘to sow the Early Giant. During August, September and October, the LeNormands, 
Half Early Paris and Erfurt can be sown, but in this section the Algiers has 
the preference. The Half Early Paris is very popular, but the other varieties are 
just as good. For spring crop the Italian kinds do not answer, but the early 
French and German varieties can be sown at the end of December and during 
January, in a bed protected from frost, and may be transplanted into the open 
ground during February and as late as March. If we have a favorable season, 
and not too dry, they will be very fine, but if the heat sets in soon, the flowers 
will not attain the same size as those obtained from seeds sown in fall, and which 
head during December and January. 
Large Algiers Caulifiower. 
Steckler’s Evergreen, a Standard Sugar Corn. 
