e,
and very white, of fine close grain. The seed requires to be sown at
Walcheren, [an island on the coast of Holland] in April, in order to be
certain of heading before frost. If sown later it often passes the
winter and heads early in the spring."

Sibley, in 1887, sold this variety under the name of Early Walcheren,
though giving it the usual characters and season of the ordinary late
sort. Buist, in 1890, mentions it as a favorite, very hardy, late
variety. It is sold by most of our seedsmen, but is less popular in this
country than in England. Sutton, the English seedsman, describes it in
his latest catalogue as an "excellent mid-season cauliflower." It is
less liable to button in dry weather than most other varieties, but
sometimes forms imperfect heads.

WEBB'S EARLY MAMMOTH.--A variety advertised as follows by Webb
& Sons of Wordsley, Stourbridge, England, in _The Garden_, Feb. 9, 1878:
"An excellent compact variety; stands the drought remarkably well; heads
large, firm, and beautifully white. The best of all for the main crop."

WELLINGTON.--Introduced about 1860. Henderson & Co. describe it
as the finest kind in cultivation; pure white; size of head over two
feet in circumference, and as large as thirteen inches diameter; very
dwarf, the stem not more than two or three inches from the soil, but
with ample foliage; one of the hardiest varieties known, and said to
withstand well the variable climate of the United States. C. G. Anderson
& Sons of England, in 1880, claimed it to be earlier, white, and closer
than Early London.

A writer in the _New England Farmer_, in 1871, speaks of it as larger
than either Early Erfurt or Early Paris.

WONDERFUL, see _Thorburn's Wonderful_.

ORDER OF EARLINESS.

The following varieties cover the season, and are arranged in the order
of earliness, as near as can be determined. Many well known kinds are
omitted, and some little known sorts inserted, the only attempt being to
form a scale of maturity:

Early Dwarf Erfurt.
Extra Early Paris.
Early London.
Asiatic.
Early Erfurt.
Early Paris.
Lenormand Short-Stem.
Late Paris.
St. Brieuc.
Algiers.
Veitch's Autumn Giant.
Giant Naples.
Veitch's Self-Protecting.
Late Italian Giant.
Walcheren.

VARIETY TESTS.

NEW YORK EXPERIMENT STATION (_Geneva_).--In 1883 the following
twenty-two varieties were sown April 16, and eleven plants of each
variety set out May 15. One variety, however, Rice's Giant S