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March ; or in the beginning of February, 

 -and planted out in April ; on a well-ex- 

 pofed fpot, at this diftance of thirty inches 

 each way. 



The two lafl kinds, being generally left 

 in the ground for Winter and Spring ufe, 

 and from the length of their ftalks, are 

 frequently much injured by the feverity of 

 froft, fhould be laid over in an oblique di- 

 redlion, which both iecures them from 

 froft, and from the bad effeds of blanch- 

 ing rains, in rotting their hearts* 



SECTION VIIL 



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CAULIFLOWER. 



THIS vegetable being much efteemed, 

 there are few who are not provided 

 with hand or bell glafles for its early pro- 

 duction. For this crop, the plants fhould 

 be fown on a light open fpot, about the 

 latter end of July, or firft. of Auguft ; and 

 when they are fit for pricking out, fhould 

 be put fingly into pots of four inches dia- 

 meter, filled with rich mould, and placed 



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