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purpose. They will shoot a little again before 

 the time for taking the carrots up ; but, that is 

 of no consequence. These shoots can be cut off 

 before the carrots be put away for winter. Car- 

 rots will transplant like Beets ; but, they grow 

 still more forked than the Beet in this case. 

 They do, however, grow large and heavy in this 

 way. I have had some weigh more than three 

 pounds. 



209. CAULIFLOWER. It is not without 

 some difficulty, that this plant is brought to per- 

 fection in any country, where the frost is severe 

 in winter, and especially where the summers are 

 as hot as they are in every part of the United 

 States. Still it may be brought to perfection. 

 It is a cabbage, and the French call it the jlower- 

 cabbage. Its head is a lump of rich pulp, instead 

 of being, as a cabbage-head is, a parcel of leaves 

 folding in towards a centre, and lapping over each 

 other. The Cauliflower is an annual plant. It 

 blows, and ripens its seed, during the year that it 

 is sown ; and, in fact, the part which is eaten is 

 not, as in the cabbage, a lump of Leaves, but the 

 seed stalks, foods, and blossoms in their embryo and 

 compact state, before they expand. It is the same 

 with Brocoli. Cauliflowers may be had to eat 

 in the fall, or in the spring. The last is the most 

 difficult to accomplish ; and I will, therefore, treat 

 first ofthe means of accomplishing that. To have 

 Cauliflowers to eat in the spring, that is to say, in 

 June, you must sow them in the fall ; for, they 

 will have a certain age before their heads will 

 come. Yet, they are very tender. They will 

 mot endure a South of England winter without a 

 covering, occasionally at least, of some sort ; and 



