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| | Number | Fit for | Number |
| Seed | of | table | of | Average
VARIETY. | from | Plants | use | heads | diameter
--------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+---------
| | | | | Inches
Early Puritan | Ferry. | 20 | Aug. 21 | 13 | 5-1/2
Early Erfurt | March. | 20 | " 22 | 19 | 8-1/2
Snowball. | March. | 20 | " 24 | 20 | 7-1/2
Vick's Ideal | Vick. | 20 | " 30 | 20 | 7
--------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+---------

The season of 1889 was uncommonly favorable for the cauliflower, and it
will be seen from the above table that these varieties headed with
greater uniformity and from two to four weeks earlier than the same or
similar varieties the preceding year.

COLORADO EXPERIMENT STATION (_Fort Collins_).--The following
report, slightly condensed, from the report of the Colorado experiment
station for 1888, will be useful for comparison: "Seed of sixteen
varieties of cauliflower was sown April 12 in hot-bed and transplanted
to the open ground May 7. They were irrigated at planting time, and on
May 14 and 28, June 11, July 5 and 20, August 3 and 15 and on September
5. The area in crop was one-third of an acre and the stand nearly
perfect. The plants were hoed twice and cultivated six times. The soil,
a clay loam, was lacking in fertility for the best culture of the
cabbage and the cauliflower. Of the varieties grown, Henderson's
Snowball was the best, with the latter's Erfurt a good second. These two
types, when well selected, are the only ones that can be relied upon to
give profitable results in Colorado."

It will be noticed in the table that Early Paris and Early London, two
varieties which have long been popular at the East, entirely failed to
head.

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VARIETY. |Seed from |Mature | REMARKS.
--------------------+----------+---------+---------------------------------
Early Snowball. |Henderson.|July 20. |Heads compact, very white, leaves
| | | smaller, very uniform.
Extra E. Erfurt. |Henderson.|Aug. 6. |Heads fairly solid and white,
| | | leaves large.
Extra Early Paris. |Landreth. |Aug. 24. |Heads solid and white, leaves