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in the Kitchen Garden for November, by which treatment they will 

 produce tolerable good heads, and at a very acceptable period. 



You must be very particular during this month, especially when 

 the weather gets warm, to give your cauliflower plants plenty of air, 

 otherwise they will draw up weakly, and be good for nothing ; but 

 at the same time, do not let them be chilled, nor their vegetation 

 checked, by exposing them too much in cold weather, or neglecting 

 to cover them carefully at night ; expose them fully to the air every 

 mild and warm day, but not when the wind is sharp or cutting, and 

 raise the glasses behind in more unfavorable weather. 



On the judicious treatment given to these plants during this month 

 depends, in a great measure, their future success ; therefore, due and 

 constant attention should be paid to them, agreeably to the rules 

 already laid down. 



As the beginning or early part of next month will be the princi- 

 pal period for planting out cauliflowers in the middle and eastern 

 States, I am induced to defer the instructions for performing that 

 part of the business till April; observing, however, that in every 

 part of the Union it should be done as early in spring as the ground 

 gets warm and into a good state of vegetation, not before; for, when 

 that is not the case, the plants very frequently get chilled and stunted 

 by the coldness of the earth and air, and seldom afterwards produce 

 good heads. 



You may sow some cauliflower seed on a warm border towards 

 the latter end of the month, to produce their flowers or heads in 

 October, &c. 



CABBAGE PLANTS. 



During the early part of this month the cabbage plants, which are 

 in a considerable state of forwardness, must be well inured to the 

 open air, the better to prepare them for planting out as soon after 

 the middle of the month as the weather will permit. Those pro- 

 duced from later sowings in hot-beds will, to do them justice, require 

 the same management as directed for cauliflower plants. 



PLANTING AND SOWING CABBAGES. 



As early in this month as you find the weather -sufficiently favor- 

 able, which, in the middle States, is generally so about the fifteenth 

 or twentieth, transplant cabbage plants of all kinds, particularly the 

 early sorts, where they are to remain for heading; this, in warm 

 situations and dry ground, may be done at an earlier period, accord- 

 ing to circumstances. 



Let them be planted in good ground enriched with dung, at two 

 feet distance for the early York, sugar-loaf, and other early kinds; 

 but the large late cabbage plants should be set a yard asunder. 



The above distances are to be understood of such plants as are to 

 remain to grow to their full size; but such of the forward kinds as 

 are to be cut while young, may be planted closer; eighteen inches 

 will be sufficient. 

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