The Cauliflower

in the _American Naturalist_, this author gives the history of cauliflower and broccoli, including the earliest recorded evidences of their cultivation, and the names applied to these vegetables in different countries. The broccoli is treated in the volume for 1887, p.

438, and the cauliflower in the same volume, p. 701.

SUTTON & SONS, Reading, England.--These seedsmen publish a work on Gardening, price five shillings, in which the subject of cauliflower culture in England is fully treated.

VILMORIN--ANDRIEUX, ET CIE.--"_Plantes Potagers_" (Paris, 1883). This work by Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., the Paris seedsmen, was translated into English, and published under the t.i.tle of "The Vegetable Garden," by Murray, of London, in 1885. It contains full descriptions of varieties of cauliflower, based on trials at the experiment grounds of this firm at Paris, and also includes information on the cultivation of this vegetable in France.