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planted out, for want of a sufficiency of roots, they are not able im- 

 mediately to extract the necessary supply of nourishment from the 

 earth, consequently become stunted, and either button, or grow so 

 miserably as never to produce a good head. 



When transplanted and furnished as above, and the proper season 

 arrives for planting them out in the open ground, they are to be 

 taken up separately with a hollow trowel or transplanter, preserving 

 as mucH earth as possible about the roots of each plant, and deposited 

 where they are to flower; thus treated they will scarcely be sensible 

 of the removal, will continue in a constant and regular state of vege- 

 tation, and if protected for a few days with garden pots or other suit- 

 able coverings from too powerful a sun, and regularly at night, for 

 ten or twelve days after planting, you may reasonably expect the 

 desired success. 



As it is from these early sowings that the greatest success may be 

 expected in the United States, every care should be taken to pro- 

 mote their early growth and strength, in order that they may arrive 

 at due perfection before the commencement of the severe summer 

 heat, which is found so injurious to all late cauliflowers. 



Continue to give a due quantity of air to your cauliflower. plants 

 at all favorable opportunities ; for, as observed in January, it is an 

 extremely essential article. 



SOWING CAULIFLOWER SEED. 



Sow some cauliflower seed in a hot-bed the beginning, middle, or 

 at any time this month, but the earlier the better, to succeed those 

 sown in January, or in case none were sown at that time ; for the 

 method of doing which, see page 29. 



If you have not the convenience of glass lights, these plants may 

 be raised with good success in paper frames, or, with particular 

 attention, you may succeed with coverings of mats, or boards and 

 mats. 



PAPER FRAMES. 



These frames are made either like the cover of a wagon or the roof 

 of a house, and covered with oiled paper instead of glass. They have 

 a frame of wood at the base, to which in the former broad hoops are 

 fastened, bent over circularly. The width of the frame should be 

 near five feet, the length nine or ten ; the distance between the hoops 

 not more than a foot, and there should be several rows of strong pack 

 thread or rope yarn running from hoop to hoop all over, distant from 

 each other about eight inches, and other lines crossing and intersect- 

 ing these between the hoops or ribs of the frame, which arrangements 

 of lines are of essential service for the more effectual support of the 

 paper when pasted on the frame, and to strengthen it against the 

 power of winds and heavy rains. 



The other sort of frame may be made with slips of pine or neat 

 laths, fastened to a roof-tree at the top, and to the base-frame at 

 bottom. The panels or lights ought to have hinges alternately at 



