Cauliflower

a garden variety of the common cabbage. The name is the same as "coleflower." The cauliflower head is really a monstrosity. The common cabbage forms a head of closely compacted leaves. The head of the cauliflower consists of the flowering parts greatly shortened and grown fleshy. The head is merely a perverted flower-stalk--a botanical monstrosity. Methods of sowing, transplanting, and cultivating are the same as for cabbage. The cauliflower does not head in hot weather. Unless grown in a cool locality cauliflowers should be set out early, to head before midsummer, or else they should be set out late, to head after the heat of midsummer has passed. Cauliflower is not frost-proof, but the heads can endure ten or twenty degrees of frost if left standing in the garden.