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raising their own plants in the right seasons, apply for them at 

 the seed-stores and gardens, in May and June. If early Cau- 

 liflower do not arrive at or near perfection, by the end of 

 June, the plants get stunted by the heat, and seldom yield any- 

 thing but leaves, unless the summer should prove mild, in 

 which case some of the early plants may flower in autumn. 

 But it is needless to risk the setting out of early Cauliflower 

 plants later than April for the sake of such chance, because 

 plants raised from seed sown about the middle of May, and 

 transplanted in July, are by far the most likely to produce 

 good fall Cauliflower. 



CABBAGE. 



CHOU. Brassica oleracea. 



The early sorts of spring Cabbage may be raised in various 

 ways. Some sow the seed between the tenth and twenty- 

 fourth of September, pricked out and managed the same as 

 Cauliflower plants, only that they are more hardy, and may 

 sometimes be kept through the winter without sashes. 



Some prefer sowing the seed in a cold-bed, covered by a 

 garden-frame with sashes. If this frame be placed on a warm 

 border, and kept free from frost, and the seed of the early kinds 

 sown the latter end of January, or early in February, these 

 plants will be better than those raised in the fall ; as they will 

 not be so liable to run to seed, will be more hardy, and as early 

 as those raised in hotbecls in the spring. 



Or, if a heap of fresh horse-manure be deposited on the 

 ground intended for the raising of early plants before the frost 

 sets iu, the same may be removed some mild day in January or 

 February, and temporary frames made by driving stakes in the 

 ground, and nailing planks or slabs thereto. The ground being 

 then dug, the seed sown, and covered up with sashes, plants 

 will soon be produced in perfection. The frames should be 



