'SECT. XV* OF ESCULENTS. %\$ 



and always allowing what air they will bear, efpecially 

 towards ipring, otherwife they may be difpofed to run, 

 or will be weak and fickly. Keep them free from dead 

 leaves, and itir the furface of the earth about them. 

 As the feafon advances, let them be wholly uncovered 

 -on fair days, and when they are got forward in March , 

 draw the {pare ones to plant out, leaving only a hngle 

 plant under a fmall hand-glafs, and two under a targe 

 one ; or a fey.- may be drawn out at the end of February, 

 if the glares are crowded. Continue the glajjes on as 

 long as they will contain the plants, raffing them upon 

 bricks. The number generally put under hand-glaiTes 

 for the winter, is from three to five; and if the giaffes 

 arc on ckje for a few days, it will help them to itrike, 

 Thofe drawn fromthefe, make a good fucceiiion crop : 

 But do not prick out, or plant, thofe that have black 

 j':c2,us t for they will come to nothing : Cauliflowers 

 -are liable to this defect chiefly in wet feafons. Slugs 

 are apt to harbour about them, for feeding on the leaves, 

 which fee to, efpecially thofe in frames, and now and 

 liir the mould about them. The diilance which 

 the/ mould be planted is from two and a half to three 

 feet, according to the richnefs of the foil. 



If the aufnmn fown plants are cut off, the earliefl 

 opportunity muft be taken in the new year to fow 

 fome feed on a gentle heat, as in February, covering 

 withglalfes, or only with hoops and mats. From this' 

 bed, when it is cold, they mould be pricked upon 

 another, where let them grow till planted out to bear. 

 . if thofe -weak ones, that have flood all the winter, 

 were pricked out early in the fpring upon a little heat,, 

 covered with good mould, it would ftrengthen and for- 

 ward them much. In default of dung, low under hand- 

 glaffes in a warm border. 



To have ^.juccejfton of cauliflowers till winter, (o\f 



en. a flight heat, or under glafs, in March, for plants to 



follow the firii crop ;" and again in open ground, about 



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