As the Dwarf, or Extra Early, Erfurt has furnished a large share of the varieties now popular in this country, the following list of Erfurt varieties will be useful for reference. The first three are in the order of earliness; the others (descended from Dwarf Erfurt,) being alphabetical: Early Erfurt Mammoth. EARLY ERFURT. _Dwarf Erfurt._ Alabaster (Johnson & Stokes). Berlin Dwarf. Best Early (Burpee). Carrara Rock. Gilt Edge (Thorburn). Ideal (Vick). Imperial. Lackawanna (Tillinghast). La Crosse Favorite (Salzer). Landreth's First. Long Island Beauty (Brill). Model (Northrup). Padilla (Tillinghast). Prize (Maule)? Puritan (Ferry). Sea Foam (Rawson). Small-Leaved Erfurt. Snowball (Faust). Snowball (Henderson). Snowball (Thorburn). Snowstorm (Dreer). Snowstorm (Pearce)? EARLY.--At the New York experiment station in 1888, a variety called "Early," from the English Specialty & Novelty Seed Co., was the only one among nine varieties which failed to head. The Early London White is sometimes known as "Early." EARLY ALLEAUME, see _Alleaume_. EARLY DEFIANCE (Sutton), see _Carter's Early Defiance_. EARLY DUKE.--Mentioned as one of the best four early varieties for Central France in the _Annales de la Société d' Horticulture de l' Allier_ for 1852. See Lefevre. EARLY DUTCH.--An old variety, described by Vilmorin as follows: "A large hardy variety, suitable for field cultivation. Stem long and rather slender; leaves elongated, but very large, of a grayish green, somewhat undulated. This is one of the varieties in which the side of the leaf is bare at the base for a considerable distance. The head is hard and solid, yet very large. It is a half-late variety. In its original country it does better than the French varieties and it is cultivated on a grand scale around Leyden. Large quantities are shipped to England, where it is found in the London markets, together with cauliflowers from the coasts of France, and especially Great Britain. The name Dwarf Holland, which is given to this variety in Germany, can only be explained by comparison with other Holland varieties. In comparison with the French varieties it is tall." EARLY DWARF CHALON.--Vilmorin catalogues this as "new" in 1889, and says: "Stem very short, head rather large, grain white and very close. Specially recommended for open air culture." See Chalon Perfection. EARLY DWARF FORCING (Sutton).--No description. EARLY DWARF SURPRISE.--An early variety from Vilmorin, which headed well at the New York experiment station, in 1884. EARLY DWARF VIENNA.--Said by Wolfner and Weisz, of Vienna, to be an old superior sort, still grown for the first and second crop.