made its appearance. This I know, from experience, to be better than the use of all the insect powders combined.[1]
To grow cauliflower to perfection, the ground needs extra heavy manuring, and the plants must be supplied with an abundance of water as soon as heads begin to form. Plants should stand the same distance apart as early cabbage. The outside leaves should be pinned together over the centre, to shield the head from the direct rays of the sun, which often cause it to turn green, thus rendering it inferior in quality or entirely unfit for use. Early Snowball and Erfurt are both good and reliable. Nowhere docs success depend more on the quality of the seed than in the cauliflower.
SWEET CORN.
Sweet corn should be planted as soon as the ground is reasonably warm, in hills, three feet apart, three plants to a hill. The season for sweet corn can be greatly prolonged by planting early and late sorts, at intervals of a few weeks. There are many good early kinds, but I think the best late variety is Stowell’s Evergreen, which produces ears of the largest size, that romain in a condition fit for the table longer than those of any other variety of sweet corn.
- ↑ The reason here presented for not growing late cabbage, because the worms might damage some of them, is quite original, and about equal to not planting any potatoes, because the bugs might eat the tops. We can hardly conceive of a garden, however small, without late cabbage. For the prevention of the ravages of this pest we would suggest the use of alum water, as being sure, casily applied and entirely harmless to the user.—Ed.
