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the covering is, almost always glass, either on 

 frames or in a hand-light. So that, to keep them, 

 through an American winter, there must not only 

 be glass, but that g-lasv (except where you have a 

 green-house to be kept warm by fire) must have a 

 covering" in severe weather. They require age, 

 and yet, you must not sow them too early in the 

 fall ; for, if you do, they will have little heads 

 about the size of a dollar, and go off to seed at 

 once without coming to a large head at all. If you 

 be too backward in sowing, the heads do not begin 

 before the great heat comes ; and, in that case, 

 they will not head til It he fall. All these circum- 

 stances make the raising of them tor spring use 

 very difficult. Sow (Long Island) first week, or 

 second week, in September, in the same manner 

 that you sow cabbages. When the plants have 

 eight leaves, put them in a vmrm place in the 

 natural ground, and do not put much dung in the 

 ground. The back part of the Hot-bed ground 

 \vouldbe the place. Plant them six inches asun- 

 der upon a piece of ground that your frame will 

 cover ; but do not put on the frame, till sharpish 

 frosts begin to come. Then put it on, and, 

 whenever you expect a frost, put over the lights 

 at night. If there be much rain, keep the lights 

 on, but give plenty of air. Take the lights off 

 whenever you can. When the hard frost comes, 

 put long dung from the stable very thick all round 

 the frame up to the very top of it, and extend- 

 ing a yard wide ; and, in severe weather, cover 

 the glass with a mat, or old carpet first; then put 

 straw upon the mat ; and then cover the straw 

 with another mat. But, mind, they must bekep 

 in the dark as little as possible. When the sun is 



