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out, they must have it ; and, in mild days, they 

 must have a great deal of air. When there is an 

 occasional thawing day^ take the lights q#, and 

 hoe and stir the ground ; for, they want strength 

 as well as protection ; and they must have all the 

 air you can, with safety to their lives, give them. 

 Thus you go on till within about three weeks of 

 the general Indian- Corn planting season. By this 

 time you may leave the lights off day and night. 

 Ten days before Corn-planting get your ground 

 ready, deeply dugand full of rich manure. Make 

 holes with a spade ; remove each plant with a ball 

 of earth about the roots ; fix the plants well in the 

 holes at two feet asunder ; leave a little dish round 

 each ; water them with water that runs out of a 

 yard where cattle are kept. They love moisture, 

 especially under a hot sun. Give them this sort 

 of water, or muddy, stagnant water, every three 

 days in hot weather ; hoe and dig between them 

 also ; and you will have Cauliflowers in June. If 

 you have a Green-house, the trouble is little. Sow 4 

 as before. Put about four plants in a flower-pot 

 a. foot diameter at top, instead of putting under a 

 frame. They will live in the Green house like 

 other plants ; and will be ready to put out a>s 

 above-mentioned. Fifty plants are enough. They 

 are very fine vegetables ; but they come not ear- 

 lier than green peas. To have Cauliflowers to 

 eat in the fall is a much easier matter, and then 

 they are, in my opinion more valuable than in tne 

 spring. Sow at the same time and in the same 

 manner as you sow early cabbages. Treat the 

 plants in the same way ; put them at two feet and 

 a half distance ; you need not now water them ; 

 they will begin to come early in October and, 



