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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 7 



this season, should be finally planled on a rich 

 north or north-east border, where they will pro- 

 duce heads from the beginning of August. 



Final culture of the second solving. — About 

 the end of the second week in July, plant these, 

 as recommended for the last, on an open quarter. 

 Give them water as often as they require it, and 

 they will begin to produce heads in October; and, 

 if the weather be mild, will continue to do so 

 throughout November and December. 



Preserving during winter. — There are many 

 ways of doing this, a few of which we will de- 

 tail:— 



Cut. them on a fine dry day, strip off all the 

 leaves, except those close to the head, and bury 

 the heads under dry peat earth; this plan answers 

 very well, for keeping them, but they become so 

 filled with dirt that fhe.y rarely or ever can be got 

 wholly free from it again. 



Another way superior to the last, because they 

 are not so liable to be dirtied, is to put them in 

 boxes or small barrels, and bury them in a stock 

 of turf, such as is used for burning. We believe 

 this was originally practised by Mr. Mcintosh, 

 who detailed it in the Gardener's Magazine; this 

 system, however, has its disadvantages, for the 

 close confinement of the heads in boxes or barrels 

 gives the vegetables an unpleasant taste. 



They also keep exceedingly well buried in sea 

 sand, perhaps better than in any thing else yet 

 made use of; but they are liable to the'objections 

 made against the first system; namely, becom- 

 ing filled with grit, which can scarcely ever be 

 removed; and another obstacle presents itself 

 here, sea sand cannot be obtained without greater 

 expense in inland counties, than the value ef the 

 cauliflowers would warrant. 



A system is mentioned in the Caledonian Hor- 

 ticultural Transactions, which consists in burying 

 the whole plants out of doors. On a fine day, 

 dig a trench close under a wall, wrap the leaves 

 Avell about the heads of the plants, and place the 

 plants head downwards in the trench; then lay 

 the soil lightly over them, in a sloping direction 

 from the wall, and smooth off the surface with the 

 spade, that it may carry off the rain. This sys- 

 tem, however, we can say little about, having ne- 

 ver tried it. 



Another plan often practised, is to draw up the 

 whole plants on a dry day, and without trimming 

 off any leaves, hang them up by the heels to the 

 root of a dry, airy shed; the only objection to this 

 plan, is, that the heads lose all that beautiful crisp- 

 ness, and become flabby, and less pleasant to the 

 taste. 



Another, and a still better plan, is to take them 

 up in fine weather, with good balls, and plant 

 them in good light rich soil in a back shed, mush- 

 room shed, or any other convenient place of the 

 kind; and if kept free from dead leaves, they will 

 soon form their heads in that situation, and be ve- 

 ry good for table. 



But the best method we have met with, where 

 there is the conveniency, is to plant them in a 

 brick pit, when severe weather comes on, and by 

 removing the glasses in fine weather, and preserv- 

 ing them from foul, we have cut very fine heads, 

 as good as could be grown out of doors, until the 

 middle of February, when the winter was very 

 severe. 



Final culture of the third so wing.— About the 



middle of April, take up those plants with good 

 balls, that have stood the winter under walls and 

 in frames, and plant them in the situations appoint- 

 ed for them to form heads. 



Take up all, except three or four of those re- 

 maining under hand glasses, and supply all defi- 

 ciencies, about the end of March. Draw a little 

 earth round ihe stem of each, give them plenty of 

 air, by propping up the glass on the south side, 

 and as the plants advance in growth, raise the 

 glasses all round by means of bricks, and finally, 

 about the beginning of May, remove the glasses 

 altogether. 



The crops will, therefore, come into use as fol- 

 lows: — 



1. Autumn sowing for preserving through the 

 winter. 



a. Those potted, and preserved in frames, and 

 finally planted under hand glasses, at the end of 

 March, will produce heads early in May. 



b. Those growing underhand glasses, either 

 planted from the frames at the end of March, or 

 having stood there all the winter, will produce 

 heads by the end of May. 



c. Those removed from the frames in April, to 

 the open quarters in the garden, will produce by 

 the middle of June. 



d. Those sheltered under walls, and planted 

 in open quarters in April, will produce by the end 

 of June. 



2. Those sown on a hotbed, in February, and 

 planted out finally in May, will produce heads by 

 the end of July or beginning of August. 



3. Those sown on a warm border, in March, 

 and finally planted out in May, will produce by 

 the middle of August, or towards the beginning 

 of September. 



4. Those sown in May, and finally planted 

 out in July will begin to produce in October, and 

 continue through the winter. 



Insects and diseases. — Whilst young, they are 

 often destroyed by the ravages of slugs, and when 

 grown to a large size, they are often infested by 

 caterpillars, particularly those of the green-veined 

 white butterfly (Pontia Napi) which secrets it- 

 self in the head, and is hard to be discovered, the 

 turnip butterfly (Pontia Rapce.) The cabbages 

 brightline moth, ( Mamestre Oleracea) and the 

 common cabbage moth (Mamestre Brassicce.) 

 The only way of keeping clear of these is to hand 

 pick them. 



They are also infested with the larva? of a fly, 

 which causes the clubbing at the roots; many 

 means have been adopted to prevent this, none of 

 which, to the best of our knowledge, are efficient 

 remedies. Charcoal dust has been ibund to have 

 a good effect as a preventative, when spread over, 

 and dug into the bed, and soot has been found to 

 have a similar effect, but neither can be depended 

 upon, at times. 



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 BURG AND PORTSMOUTH WITH THE ROAN- 

 OKE. 



slddress to the Citizens of Virginia and North 

 Carolina. 



At a convention of Delegates assembled at 

 Danville on the 5th day of October 1S35, for the 

 purpose of taking into consideration the projected 



