110 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



From the nature of the organization of 

 these plants, and the diversity of powers 

 they possess, to receive nourishment in 

 the superabundance which high cultivation 

 affords them, they undergo more rapid 

 changes than most plants ; this is particularly 

 observable in the species called cauliflower, 

 which often in a few days branches from the 

 principal stalk, with such force and numbers, 

 as to form a solid head of snowy tender 

 buds, which are afterwards forced to a consi- 

 derable height before the blossoms open. 



In the Economicfal Journal of France, the 

 following method of guarding cabbages from 

 the depradation of caterpillars, is stated to 

 be infallible; and may, perhaps, be equally 

 serviceable against those which infect other 

 vegetables. 



Sow a belt of hemp-seed round the borders 

 of the ground where the cabbages are planted, 

 and although the neighbourhood be infected 

 with caterpillars, the space inclosed by the 

 hemp will be perfectly free, and not one 

 of these vermin will approach it. 



We have known brocoli preserved from 

 the injury of the severest winters, by being 

 taken out of the ground late in the autumn, 

 and replanted in a slanting direction. This 

 experiment was made in the year 1819, with 



