8. If any plants have failed to head on the approach of winter, remove them to a shed or cellar, and they will head there.
9. Guard against the flea beetle, cut worm, cabbage worm and cabbage maggot in the same manner as with cabbage.
10. With suitable varieties and proper care the cauliflower can generally be successfully grown wherever the cabbage thrives particularly well.
GLOSSARY.
Blind.—To "go blind" is to lose the centre or growing point, and fail to head. It is generally due to climatic or insect injury. It is said to be frequently caused in the cauliflower by an insect resembling the turnip fly. Soot and lime are remedies.
Blues.—A dark-bluish appearance, accompanying arrested development, generally due to unfavorable weather, unsuitable soil or insects at the root. Cabbage and cauliflower plants which are set too early in the spring, especially if they are not well hardened off and are placed in a cold soil, are apt to assume this appearance. If cauliflowers remain long in this condition, they are liable either to fail to head, or to form small heads prematurely.
Bolt.—A familiar term in England, applied to wheat when it heads out small and prematurely. Sometimes applied to cauliflowers when they head before they attain a proper age and size. See Button.