42 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Art. XI. On the Caulifiotver. By A. Forsyth. 



For the earliest crop to supply the table on the 1st of June, 

 mark out a bed 5 ft. wide, and, say, 50 ft. long (an area of nearly 

 one pole) ; and let this be turfed all over with the grass side of the 

 turves downwards; and over this lay about 1 in. of fine soil : if 

 fresh from the common, so much the better; if not, that from the 

 alleys may be used. Then sow the seeds in drills, half an inch 

 deep, and 9 in. apart, running north and south : this done (say 

 August 21.), as they advance, thin them out to about 2 in. apart 

 in the rows, and earth them up from the alleys ; when about 

 3 in. high, apart may be dug up, and planted under hand-glasses ; 

 say 50 hand-lights, and 4 plants under each, to have all the air, 

 light, and sun that can be got, and as little frost as possible. At 

 the approach of winter, the seed-bed is to have a double mat awn- 

 ing (of the same kind as that described in my article on Strawber- 

 ries, Vol. XIII. p. 308., fig. 107.), to be used only in frosty weather, 

 and during storms of rain. Here they will remain till the middle 

 of March, when they may be well watered, dug up with a ball of 

 turf to each, and replanted, not with the dibber, but in trenches, 

 on dung, as directed for white cabbages, in lines 24 in. by 18 in. 

 In the same sort of seed-bed, and under the same kind of pro- 

 tection, sow, say, 1 oz. of seed at Candlemas, and treat them as 

 above till they are fit for transplantation. The last successional 

 crop may be sowed in the open border about the middle of May; 

 the culture of which, and of all the other crops, during fine 

 weather, being the same as for cabbages, need not be enlarged 

 upon. — Isleworth, February, 1837. 



Art. XII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

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 and on Kinds of Interest -previously extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopedia of Plants," and of 

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