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liolding well manured and worked loamy soil is the best ; and in dry 

 sandy soils it is most difficult to prevent a great bulk of the crops 

 from buttoning if the season prove dry. 



To succeed this sowing made in heat, I have usually found it de- 

 sirable to make another under hand-glasses on a wall border about the 

 middle of March, and afterwards at intervals of three weeks up to the 

 middle of June. The plants should always be pricked out into beds 

 of rich soil as soon as they can be conveniently handled, and before 

 they become drawn in the seed-bed. They suffer less from the trans- 

 planting when young than if it be delayed till they form deeper tap-roots. 

 From the time they are pricked out till they are established in the 

 garden quarters, they must never be allowed to get a check for want 

 of water, for if once they become " blue," there is little chance of 

 their doing well afterwards. This frequent sowing and as frequent 

 planting is the only way to be sure of keeping up a constant succession 

 of nice heads fit to present in the dining-room. It is not necessary to 

 make large plantations, except in the case of the last for the season, 

 from which a winter supply is expected at least up to Christmas. 

 The last should therefore be the largest of the plantings, as it comes 

 in at a cool season, when the heads stand long in good condition, and 

 can be stored away to keep in quantities. 



The time for making the last sowing and planting will require 

 always to be determined by the climate of different localities. Here 

 the latest may be delayed till August, but in most places in Scotland 

 it will require to be planted som^ewhat earlier. By the time the latest 

 is consumed it is succeeded by that excellent variety of Broccoli known 

 by the name of Snow's Winter Broccoli, easier known by name 

 than by experience, although I always manage to get it true. 



In light dry soils I have found it a good plan to make sure of good 

 Cauliflower, in very dry seasons, to plant a few rows among rows of 

 Pease kept rather wider apart than is common. The Pease afford shade 

 to the plants, and I have seen them do well when they buttoned exten- 

 sively in open quarters. The later, and particularly the latest, should 

 always be in well-exposed situations. It is a practice in England to 

 take two crops of Cauliflower from the same ground. When those 

 planted in April in an open quarter are cut, which is generally by the 

 1st of July, I have frequently trenched or dug the ground and planted 

 again, and had two good crops in the same place. The latest planting 

 has generally succeeded the earliest sowing of French Beans and second 

 early Potatoes. 



In keeping up a constant supply of this vegetable, one of the most 

 necessary auxiliaries is a cool, dry, dark cellar, with its floor, or part 

 of it at least, covered 6 inches deep with moist sand. When Cauli- 



