Show imported versus american brown grown SJ for several years ears according to a b I 1 betin letin from the new york station the market gardeners ji h the eastern states have found that d grown from a carefully selected stra n 0 of several of the leading varieties ot of cabbage grown in this country gave better results thin than imported peed seed of tho the same same varieties only recently however has las it been claimed that cauliflower seed could be grown here that would mate in valno value seed grown in germany or france especially has it been claimed that cauliflower and cabbage seed grown on puget sound wash excelled all others in vigor of prot product luct in order to investigate this malter a trial was made at the station in 1889 between two varieties of eastern grown TT afi Washington n g to n with t h the ih e r results asu 1 t s in favor of tho the washington grown seed to farther test the tile matter a trial of the same land kind was made in 1890 using iwah cabbage and cauliflower seed from three different sources imported long island grown and washington grow grown n the results were carefully noted frad a nd as exhibited in in the tables published show that neither the long island nor the puget sound grown seed aro are in any way v ay inferior to those imported a fact that debould canse cause the growing of these seeds here to be further developed aa As between early and late plantings set in open ground april 29 20 and july 8 only about half of the early planted cauliflower developed heads while of the late planted 00 12 percent per cent reached maturity in the case of the cabbage 75 01 per cent of those planted early and 00 34 percent of tho the late planted made boar retable heads |