42 CAULIFLOWER. 



As- soon as they have taken root, give the ground a deep 

 hoeing, and repeat this two or three times in the course of 

 their growth, drawing some earth around their stems. 



Some of the Cape Broccoli, if attended to as directed, 

 will come to perfection early in September and [in October; 

 the other kinds will produce their heads in regular succes- 

 sion throughout the winter and spring months, according to 

 their different degrees of earliness, provided an artificial 

 climate be provided for them. These, of course, with 

 whatever may remain of the Cape Broccoli, will have to 

 be taken up early in October, and laid in carefully with 

 the roots and stems covered with earth as far as their lower 

 leaves. Those who have not a place provided, may keep 

 a few in frames, or in a light cellar; but every gardener 

 and country gentleman should have suitable places erected 

 for a vegetable that yields such a delicious repast, at a time 

 when other luxuries of the garden are comparatively out of 

 our reach. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



CHOUFLEUR. Brassica oleracea botryth, 



VARIETIES. 



Early White | Late White. 



Hardy Red> or Purple Cauliflower. 



THIS is a first-rate vegetable : to obtain which, great pains 

 must be taken in every stage of its growth, the extremes of 

 heat and cold being very much against it: which circum- 

 stance accounts for good Cauliflowers being scarcely attain- 

 able in unpropitious seasons, and which the novice falsely 

 attributes to defectiveness of the seed. 



To produce early Cauliflower, the seed should be sown 

 between the sixteenth and twenty-fourth of September, in 

 a bed of clean rich earth. In about four or five weeks after- 

 wards, the plants should be pricked out into another bed, 

 at the distance of four inches from each other every way } 

 this bed should be encompassed with garden frames, covered 



