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A practical manual for growers and cooks outlines the vegetable's origin and industry in Europe and the United States, then provides step-by-step guidance on soil management, fertilizers, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storage, and marketing. It treats timing and precautions for early and fall crops, regional adaptation across U.S. districts, insect and fungal enemies, and the importance of careful seed selection. A descriptive catalogue and variety tests are offered, followed by a comparison with broccoli and a chapter on cooking, digestibility, nutritive value, and recipes, with consistent emphasis on adjusting varieties and methods to local climate and market conditions.







HOW TO EXTEND THE MARKET

For Cauliflower.


The market demand for any product is always a matter of growth. Peter Henderson said in 1867 that an acre of cauliflower was as much as could be profitably sold from one garden in the New York market. Now, five to fifteen acres in a single field is not an uncommon sight on Long Island. It is the business of the grower not only to supply the demand, but to create it. One way to increase the demand for cauliflower is to teach consumers the best methods of using it. We believe that if cauliflower growers could distribute freely to their customers the information found in the chapter on cooking in this work on Cauliflower it would result in largely increased sales. Accordingly we have reprinted this chapter as a separate pamphlet and offer it to market gardeners and others at the following very low rates: Single copies, ten cents, $5 per hundred. Sample copy free upon request to any purchaser of this book. Please give these a trial.

REGISTER PUBLISHING COMPANY,

Ann Arbor, Michigan







Henderson's Early Snowball

CAULIFLOWER.

EARLY, LARGE AND A SURE HEADER. THE STANDARD VARIETY EVERYWHERE.

Sold by all Dealers in Our Original Packages,

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MARCH'S

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CAULIFLOWER and CABBAGE SEED.

THE BEST IN THE WORLD.

In every part of the country, from Maine to Oregon, it is pronounced good. High Testimony from High Sources.

Reports of the Experiment Stations:

Prof. W. J. Green, Ohio. Ag. Ex. Sta., says: Having tested your Snowball and Earliest Dwarf Erfurt, I do not hesitate, after careful trials, to say that your Cauliflower seed ranks with the very best. Not only does it show the effects of careful selection, but the seeds were very large and full of vitality, germinated quick, and produced plants of uncommon vigor, healthy in all stages of growth. If the seed sent us is a fair sample you need not hesitate to claim that it is as good as any that can be produced, as far as quality is concerned, and in vitality and consequent vigor of plants excelling imported seed by 25 per cent. I shall not hesitate to recommend Puget Sound Cauliflower seed, for I believe it to be The Best in the World.

Prof. L. R. Taft, Mich. Ag. Col., writes:

Dear Sir,—The Early Perfection ("Novelty No. 9") and American grown Snowball Cauliflower seed sent here for trial by you, as compared with nine other varieties, the following is the report. No. 8 is American Snowball, and No. 10 is Novelty No. 9 or Early Perfection:

1   2   3   4   5   6   7    8   9   10 11

96 93 65 58 43 79 63  96 86   99 83 Germination.

90 68 66 48 17 58 33  82 76   90 60 Vegetation.

80 80 70 80 90 40 60  90 90 100 80 Vigor and heading

The Early Perfection (No. 9) was one of the first to form heads, requiring fifty-three days from time of planting out. It gave fully as good and large heads as any of the other early kinds. I am particularly pleased with the high vegetative powers of your seeds, and the vigor of the plants.


Mich. Ag. Col., Nov. 20, 1890.

H. A. March, Fidalgo, Wash.:

Dear Sir,—Your letter asking for a report of your Cabbage and Cauliflower Seed, is at hand. The Puget Sound strain of Early Wakefield Cabbage seed was so noticeably large that I weighed several samples of it and found that it averaged two and one-half times as large as the same variety from other seedsmen. In the seed-box we obtained 97 plants from 100 seeds.

The plants were much stronger than those of any other variety. Twenty-five plants were put out, and every one formed a perfect head. They were very even in size and shape, averaging slightly larger than our other strains, with three days difference in their favor in earliness.

Very truly, L. R. TAFT.

Prices half the price of imported seed of the SAME QUALITY.
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Try American Grown Cauliflower Seed.

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Transcriber's Note


Some inconsistent spelling in the original document has been preserved.

Typographical errors corrected in the text:

Page   29  exeprienced changed to experienced
Page   31  two changed to too
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Page   85  plans changed to plants
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