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of Fort Collins. Owing to accidents, neither of the lots sent out 
proved as satisfactory as was hoped. Better than 90% of those 
that were planted at Fort Collins made marketable heads. Two 
varieties, Early Snow Ball, and Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt, were 
used. The late planting was set June 15th and 16th. Up to the 
present, from one-tenth of an acre of cauliflower 785 pounds have 
been sold, bringing $42.30. A part of the crop is being held in 
storage to determine the advisability of keeping cauliflower after 
the season closes. Cauliflower demands cool weather and a soil 
that is fairly strong in nitrogen and also well supplied with phos¬ 
phorus and potassium. The culture for this vegetable is the same 
as for cabbage, with the additional work of going through the field 
every day or two after the heads begin to form and tieing the leaves 
together to prevent the small white heads from coloring. If this 
is neglected until the head is colored by the sun, the vegetable is 
injured both for market and family purposes. 
Corn .—Corn is a crop that is not well adapted to Colorado, ex¬ 
cept in the lower altitudes. Corn, requires warm days and nights 
to make its best development. While it is not advised to grow 
corn for market purposes, it may be grown in the home garden 
satisfactorily, except in the higher altitudes. The culture is the 
same as in other districts. It is well to give corn as little water 
as possible, as over watering serves to retard the maturity of the 
corn. The worst enemy of the corn is the so-called boll weevil, or 
corn worm, which feeds on the immature grain in the husks. No 
remedy is known for this insect. A succession may be main¬ 
tained from the latter part of July until frost, by planting such 
varieties as Corey, or Catawba, for early, Crosby’s 12 Row, second 
crop, and Country Gentleman, for late. At Fort Collins, these 
three varieties did very well during the past season. Stowell’s Ever¬ 
green and like varieties are too late to be satisfactory with our 
length of season. 
Celery .—Celery is one of the crops that is not only being grown 
for home use, but is being extensively grown in Colorado for mar¬ 
ket. Until within a comparatively short time, it was thought that 
celery could not be grown in the so-called arid West. It has been 
found, however, that celery not only can be grown in the West, 
but that the texture and flavor of Colorado celery is much superior 
to that grown in either Michigan or California. The celery crop 
this year in the so-called Denver district will probably amount to 
400 cars. This does not include that grown in the Pueblo district, 
or for numerous markets in other parts of the State. There is 
no reason why celery should not be grown in every garden. Con¬ 
siderable complaint has been made by celery growers that the 
tendency of the plant to make seed stalks the first year is a serious 
