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After you have finifhed your "beds, you may fct your 

 glafles over your plants again, obferving to raiieyour 

 props pretty high, efpecially if the weather be mild, 

 that they may have free air to ftrengtiien them ; and 

 in mild foft weather fet oiF your elaffcs, as alfo in 





preferred, if made with reeds, becaufe the winds will 

 fall dead in thefe, and not reverberate as by pales or 

 walls. This ground fhould be well trenched, bury- 

 ing therein a good quantity of rotten dung ^ then 

 level your ground, and if it be naturally a wet foil, 

 you fliould raife it up in beds about two feet and a 

 half, or three feet broad, and four inches above the 

 level of the ground ; but if your ground is moderately 

 dry, you need not raife it at all ; then plant your 

 plants, allowing aboUt two feet fix inches diftance 

 from glafs to glafs, in the rows, always putting two 

 good plants under each glafs, which may be at about 

 four inches from each other •, and if you dcfign them 

 for a full crop, they may be three feet and a half, 

 row from row : but if you intend to make ridges for 

 Cucumbers or Melons between the rows of Cauli- 

 flower plants (as is gerterally pradtifed by the garden- 

 ers ne^ir London,) you mufl then make your row^ 



eight feet afunder. 



When you have planted your plants, if the ground 

 is very dry, you Ihould give them a little water, and 

 then fct your glafies over them, which may remain 

 clofe down upon them, until they have taken root, 

 which will be in about a week or ten days time, un- 

 lefs there fliould be a kindly fliower of rain ; in vv^hich 

 cafe you may {^t off the glaffes, that the plants may 

 receive the benefit of it ^ and in about ten days after 

 planting, you fliould be provided with a parcel of 

 forked fticks or bricks, with which you fliould raife 

 your glafies about three or four inches on the fide 

 toward the foiith, that youf pTants may have free air. 

 in this manner your glafies fliould remain over the 

 plants night and day, unlefs in frofl:y weather, when 

 you fliould fet them down as clofe as poflible : or if 

 ' the weather fliould prove very warm, which many 

 ^ times happens in November, and fometimes in De- 

 'ceniber; in this cafe, you fliould keep your glafies' 

 • * ofi^in the day-time, and put them on only in the night, 

 lefl:, by keeping the glafies over them too much, you 

 fliould draw them into flower at that feafon, which is 

 many times the cafe in mild winters, efpecially if un- 

 fl<.ilfully managed. 



Toward the latter end of February, if the weather 

 proves mild, you fliould prepare another good fpot 

 t)f ground, to remove fonie of the plants into from 

 under the glafiis, which fliould be well dunged and 

 trenched (as before;) then fet off the glafi^es, and, 

 after making choice of one of the molt promifing 



■ plants under each glafs, which fliould rerriain for 

 good, take away the other plant, by raifing it up with 

 a trowel, &c. fo as to preferve as much earth to the 

 root as pofiible ; but have a great regard to the plant 

 that is to remain, not todifliurb or prejudice its roots : 

 then plant your plants which .you have taken out, at 

 the diftance before diredted, viz. if for a full crop, 

 three feet and a half, row from row ; but if for ridges 

 of Cucumbers between them, eight ittx.^ and two 

 feet four inches difl:ance in the rows : then, with a 

 fmall hoe, draw the earth up to the ftems of the 

 plants which were left under the glafies, taking great 

 care not to let the earth fall into their hearts \ and fet 

 your glafiTes over them again, raifing your props an 

 inch or two higher than before, to give them more 

 air, obferving to take them off" whenever there may 

 be fbme gentle fliowers, which will greatly refrefli 

 the plants. - 



■ In a little time after, if you find your plants grow 

 fo faft- as to fill the glafies with their leaves, you 

 fliould then flightly dig about the plants, and raife 

 the ground about them in a bed broad enough for 



. the giaflTcs to ftand about four inches high, which 

 . will give your plants a great deal of room by raifing 

 the glafies fo much higher, when they are fet over 

 them ; and by this means they may be kept covered 

 until April, which otherwife they could not, without 

 prejudice to the leaves of the plants :' and this is a 

 great advantage to them -, for many times we have 

 returns of fevere frofts at the latter end of March, 

 wliich prove very hurtful to thefe plants, if expofed 



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 gentle fliowers of rain ; and now you inuft begin tj 

 harden them by degrees to endure the open air : how- 

 ever, it is advifeable to let your glafl^es remain over 

 them as long as pofl^ible, if the nights fliould be frofty, 

 which will greatly forward your plants •, but be fure 

 do not let your glafl^es remain upon them in very hot 

 fun-fliine, efpecially if their leaves prefs againil the 

 fides of the glafl^es ; for I have often obibrved, in 

 fuch cafes, that the moifl:ure which hath rifen from 

 the ground, together with the perfpiraticn of t! 

 plants, which, by the glafies remaining over them, 

 hath been detained upon the leaves of the p]anc.^, 

 and when the fun hath flione hot upon the fides of the 

 glafies, hath acquired fuch a powerful heat from the 

 beams thereof, as to fcald all their larger leaves, to 

 the no fmall prejudice of the plants : nay, fometimes 

 I have feen large quantities of plants fo aff'efted there-, 

 with, as never to be worth any thing after. 

 If y9ur plants have fucceeded well, tov/ard t!ie end 

 of April fome of them will begin to fruit j you mult 

 therefore look over them carefully every other day, 

 and when you fee the flower plainly appear, you muft 

 break down fome of the inner leaves over it to guard 

 it from the fun, which would make the flower yellow 

 and unfightly, if expofed thereto ; and when you fijid 

 your flower at its full bignefs (which you may know 

 by its outfide, parting, as if it would run,) you mnft 

 then draw it out of the ground, and not cut them off, 

 leaving the ftalk in the ground, as is by fome prac- 

 tifed i and if they are defigned for prefcnt ufe, you 

 may cut them out of their leaves ; but if defigned to 

 . keep, you fliould preferve their leaves about them, 

 and put them into a cool place: the befl: time for 

 pulling of them is in a morning, before the fun hath 

 exhaled the moifl:ure \ for CauUflowers, pulled in th:; 

 heat of the day, lofe that firmnefs wliich they naiu- 

 ' turally have, and become tough. 



But to return to our fecond crop (the plants beinc; 

 raifed and managed as was direfced for the early crop", 

 until the end of Ofcoberj) you m.ull then prepare 

 fome beds, either to be covered with glafs-frames, cr 

 arched over with hoops, to be covered with mats, &c. 

 Thefe beds fliould have fome dung laid at the bot- 

 tom, about fix inches or a foot thick, according to 

 the fize of your plants \ for if they arc fmall, the' bed 

 fliould be thicker of dung, to bring tlieni forward, 

 and fo vice verfa : this dung fliould be beat dov/ii 

 clofe with a fork, in order to prevent the worms from 

 ' finding their way through it j then lay fome good 

 frefli earth about four or five inches thick thereon, in 



which you fliould plant your plants about two inches 

 ^ and a half fquare, obferving to fliade and water tlicin 

 until they have taken frefli root : but be fure do nor 

 keep your coverings clofe, for the warm.th of th.e 

 dung v/ill occafion a large damp in the bed, which, 

 if pent in, will greatly injure the planes. 

 When your plants have taken root, you muft give 

 them as much free open air as pofiible, by keeping 

 the glafiTes off" in the day-time as much as the weather 

 will permit ; and in the night, or at fjcli times as 

 the glafies require to^ be kept on, raife them up v/ith 

 ^ bricks or other props to let in frefli air, unlefs in 

 ■ frofty weather i at which time the glaffts fliould be 

 covered with mats, ftrav/, and Peafe-haulm, &c. but 

 this is not to be done except in very hard frofts ; you 

 muft alfo obferve to guard them againft great rain, 

 which in winter tim.e is very hurtful to them j but in 

 mild weather, if the glafies are kept on, they fliould 

 be propped to admit frefli air; and if the under leave: 

 grow yellow and decay, be fure to pick them off-, 

 for if the weather fliould, prove very bad in winter, 

 fo that you fliould be obliged to keep them clofe co- 

 vered for two or three days together, as it fomctinies 



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