or ESCULENTS. SECT. XT. 



&c. with a thick coat of straw, bottom and sides, 

 and particularly on the top. In a soil that suits 

 them, carrots turn to good account, and are excel- 

 lent food for all sorts of cattle, but particularly pigs 

 and horses. * 



CAULIFLOWER is sometimes distinguished into 

 an early and late sort ; though, in fact, there is no 

 difference, only as the seed of that called early is 

 saved from the forwardest plants-. 



The time for sowing cauliflowers is rather a nice 

 business, but it is generally settled for the 20th of 

 August, a day under or over. It will be prudent 

 however, to sow again a few days after, but not 

 earlier, as then they would be apt to form only very 

 little heads, and run up for seed. Let the young 

 plants be timely thinned, that they may be strong. 

 Prick them out when the first leaves are about an 

 inch broad. And as cauliflowers are tender, they 

 will require to be pricked out in the warmest and 

 driest part of the garden. Some of them should be 

 protected under hand-glasses, frames, or hoops and 

 mats, shutting up close, and covering the glasses 

 with mats or straw in severe weather : not doing 

 this, however, before the weather makes it necessary, 

 and always allowing what air they will bear, espe- 

 cially towards spring, otherwise they may be dis- 

 posed to run, or will be weak and sickly. Keep 

 them free from dead leaves, and stir the surface of 

 the earth about them. As the season advances, let 

 them be wholly uncovered on fair days, and when 

 they are got forward in March, draw the spare ones 

 to plant out, .leaving only a single plant under a 

 small hand-glass, and two under a large one ; or a 

 few may be drawn out at the end of February, if 

 the glasses are crowded. Continue the glasses on 

 as long as they will contain the plants, raising them 



