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Thus you go on till within about three weeks of the 

 general Indian-Corn planting season. By this 

 time you may leave the lights off day and night. 

 Ten days before Corn-planting get your ground 

 ready, deeply dug and full of rich manure. Make 

 holes with a spade ; remove each plant with a ball 

 of earth about the roots ; fix the plants well in the 

 holes at two feet asunder; leave a little dish round 

 each ; water them with water that runs out of a 

 yard where cattle are kept. They love moisture, 

 especially under a hot sun. Give them this sort of 

 water, or muddy, stagnant water, every three days 

 in hot weather; hoe and dig between them also ; 

 and, you will have Cauliflowers in June. If you 

 have a Green-house, the trouble is little. Sow as 

 before. Put about four plants in a flower-pot a foot 

 diameter at top, instead of putting under a frame. 

 They will live in the Green-house like other plants ; 

 and will be ready to put out as above-mentioned. 

 Fifty plants are enough. They are very fine ve- 

 getables ; but they come not earlier than green 

 peas. To have Cauliflowers to eat in the fall is a 

 much easier matter, and then they are, in my opi- 

 nion, more valuable than in the spring. Sow at 

 the same time and in the same manner as you sow 

 early cabbages. Treat the plants in the same way ; 

 put them at two feet and a half distance ; you need 

 not now water them ; they will begin to come early 

 in October; and, if any of them have not perfected 

 their heads when the sharp frosts come, take them 

 up by the root, hang them up by the heels in a warm 

 part of a barn, or in a cellar ; they will get tole- 

 rably good heads; and you will have some of those 

 heads to eat at Christmas. The seed, on account 

 of the heat, is extremely difficult to save in Ame- 

 rica ; but, if a fall Cauliflower were kept i n ^ 



