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happens, thefc decayed leaves will render the inclofed 

 air very noxious ; and the plants perfpiring pretty 



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h at that time, are often dedroyed in vaft quan- 



tities. 



Your ground being 



In the beginning of February, if the weatlier proves 

 mild,vou muft begin to harden your plants by degrees, 

 that they may be prepared for tranfplantation ; and 

 the ground where you intend to plant your Cauli- 

 flowers out for good (which fliould be quite open 

 from trees, &c. and rather nioift than dry,) having 

 been %vell dunged and dug, fliould be fown with Ra- 

 difhes a v/eck or fortnight before you intend to plant 

 out your Cauliflowers :^the reafon why I mention the 

 fowing of Radilhes particularly, is this, viz. that if 

 there are not fome Radilhes amongfl: them, and the 

 month of May fliould prove hot and dry, as itlbme- 

 times happens, the fly will feize your Cauliflowers, 

 and eat their leaves full of holes, to their prejudice, 

 and fometimcs their deftruftion ; whereas, if there 

 are Ratliflies upon the fpot, the flies will take to them, 

 and never meddle with the Cauliflowers fo long as 

 they lafl. Indeed, the gardeners near London mix 

 Spinach v/ith their Radiih-feed, andfo have a double 

 crop, which is an advantage where ground is dear, 

 or where peribns are fliraitened for room ; otherwife it 

 is very well to have only one crop amongfl: the Cau- 

 liflowers, that the ground may be cleared in time. 



ready, and the feafon good, 

 bout the middle or end of February, you may begin 

 to plant out your Cauliflowers : the diilance which 

 is generally allowed by the gardeners near London 

 (who plant other crops between their Cauliflowers to 

 fucceed them, as Cucumbers for pickling, and winter 

 Cabbages) is every other row tour feet and a half 

 apart, and the intermediate rows two feet and a half, 

 and two feet two inches difl:ance in the rows •, fo that 

 in the latter end of May, or beginning of June (when 

 the Radiflies and Spinach are cleared off,) they put 

 in feeds of Cucumbers for pickling, in the middle of 

 the wide rov/s, at three feet and a half apart ; and 

 in the narrow rows, plant Cabbages for winter ufe, 

 at two feet two inches diftance, fo that thefe ftand 

 each of them exaftly in the. middle of thefquare be- 

 tween four Cauliflower-plants ; and thefe, after the 

 Cauliflowers are gone off, will have full room to grow, 

 and the crop be'hereby continued in a fucceffion thro' 

 the whole feafon. 



About three weeks or a month after your Cauliflow- 

 ers are planted out, the Radilhes between them will 

 be fit to hoe; at which time, when you are hoeing 

 out the Radiflies where they are too thick, you fliould 

 cut off allfuch as grow immediately about the Cauli- 

 flowers, and \vould prove hurtful to them, by draw- 

 ing them up tall and weak •, and alfo at that time 

 draw die earth up to the fl:ems of the plants, being 

 careful not to let any get into their hearts (as was 

 before directed;) and when your Radiflies are fit to 

 pull, be fure to clear round the Cauliflowers firfl:, and 

 keep drawing the earth up to their fl:ems as they ad- 

 vance in height, which will keep their fl:ems from be- 

 ing hardened by the weather, and be of Angular fer- 

 vice to your plants. ■ ' 



I'herc are many people who arc very fond of water- 

 ing Cauliflower-plants in fummer, but the gardeners 

 near London have almofl wholly laid afide this prac- 

 tice, as finding a deal of trouble and charge to little 

 purpofe ; for if the ground be fo very dry as not to 

 produce tolerable good Cauliflowers without water, 

 itieldom happens, that watering them renders them 

 much better •, and when once they have been w^atered, 

 if it is not confl:antly continued, it had been much 

 better for them if they never had any -, as alfo if it be 

 given them in the middle of the day, it rather helps 

 to leak! them : fo that, upon the whole, if care be 

 taken to keep the earth drawn up to their fliems, and 

 clear tliem from every thing that grows near them, 

 that they may have free open air, you will find that 

 they will fucceed better v/ithout than with water, 

 wp.ere any of thefe cautions are not fl:ri6tly obferved. 

 ^^ hen your Cauliflowers begin to fruity you mull 



often look over them, to turn down their leaves, a^ 

 was before direfted, to preferve their whitenefs ; and 

 when they are full grown, obferve the former direc- 

 tions in pulhng them, &:c. but wherever you meet 

 with an extraordinai-y good Cauliflower^ wliofe curd 

 is hard and white, andperfedly free from any frothi- 

 nefs about the edges^ you fhould fuffer it to remain 

 for feed, keeping the leaves clofe down upon it un- 

 til the flower hath fliot out ftems, and then remove 

 the leaves from them by degrees, but do not expofe 

 them too much to the open air at firfl:. Astheflrems 

 advance, you muft take the leaves quite away -, and 

 , when they begin to branch out, you fliould fix three 

 pretty fl;rong Hakes, at equal angles, about it, fur- 

 - rounding them with packthread, &c. to fupport tlielr 

 Dranches, which would be othemife liable to break 

 with the wind. . ■ . ■ 



When your pods begin firft to be formed, if the 

 weather proves dry, you fliould give them a little 

 water all over (with a watering-pot that hath a rofe 

 to it*,) which will promote the progrefs of the feeds, 

 and preferve them from mildew, which is often hurt- 

 ful to the feeds ; and, when your feeds are ripe, 

 you muft cut it off, and hang it up to dry, and rub 

 it out as was diredted for Cabbage-feed : and althouerh 

 your flowers do not produce fo much feed as thoie 

 which were of a fofter or frothy nature, yet the good- 

 nefs of fuch feeds will fufficiently recompenfe for the 

 quantity ; and any perfon who was to purchafe his 

 feeds, had better give ten fliillings an ounce for fuch 

 feed than two for the feeds commonly faved for fale, 

 as the gardeners about London have experienced, 

 who will never buy any feeds of this kind, if they do 

 not know how they were faved. 

 But in order to have a third crop of C::uliflov/ero,^ 

 you fliould make a flender hot-bed in February, in 

 which you fliould fow the feeds, covering them a 

 quarter of an inch thick with light mould, and co- 

 vering the bed with glafs-frames : you fliould now 

 and then gently refrefh the bed with Vv^ater, obfervino- 

 to raife the glafies with bricks or props in the day- 

 time, to let in frelh airj and when the plants are 

 come up, and have gotten four or five leaves, you 

 fhould prepare another hot-bed to prick them into, 

 which may be about two inches fquare ; and in the 

 beginning of April harden them, by degrees, to fit 

 them for tranfplanting, which fliould be done the 

 middle of that month, at the diftance directed for 

 the fecond crop, and muft be managed accordingly : 

 thefe (if the foil is moift where they are planted, or 

 the feafon cool and moift) will produce good Cauli- 

 flowers about a month after the fecond crop is gone, 

 whereby their feafon will be greatly prolonged. 

 There is alfo a fourth crop of Cauliflowers, which 



. is raifed by fowing the {ctd about the 23d of May 5 

 and being tranfplanted, as hath been before directed, 

 will produce good Cauliflowers in a kindly feafon 

 and good foil, after Michaelmas, and continue thro' 

 Odlober and November ; and, if the feafon permlr, 

 often a great part of December. 

 The reafon why I fix particular days for the fowing of 

 this feed, iS becaufe two or three days often make a 

 great diflerence In their plants •, and becaufe thefe are 

 the days ufually fixed by the gardeners near London, 

 who have found their crops to fucceed bcft when 

 fown at thofe times, although one day, more or Icfs, 

 will make no great odds. I have alfo, in this edition^ 

 altered the days to the new ftyle. 



B R E Y N I A, See Capparis. 



B ROM ELI A. Plum. Nov. Gem 46. tab. 8. Lim 



Gen. Plant. 356. 



The Characters are, 



// halh a tbree-corncrcd permanent ewpatcmcnt cut into 

 three parts^ upon which the germen is fituated, "The 

 flozver hath three long narrow petals^ which are erc^^ 

 each having a ncSiar'ium joined to it ahove the hafe. It 

 hath fix ftojnina the length of the petals^ which arc ter- 



oblong ft. 



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fupporting a /lender ft_ 



Ghtufe Jlig 



J he €7npakmcnt a!^t award becomes 



