34 THE' AMERICAN GARDENER. 



CARROT. 



Read the Article, Beet ; for, the same season, same 

 soil, same manure, same preparation for sowing, same 

 distances, same intercultivation, same time of taking up, 

 and mode of preserving the crop, all belong to the car- 

 rot. Some fine roots may be carefully preserved to plant 

 out for seed in the spring; and the seed should betaken 

 only from the centre seed-stalks of the carrots; for that 

 is the finest. 



The mark of a good kind of seed, is deep-red color of 

 the tap. The paler ones are degenerate ; and the yel- 

 low ones are fast going back to the wild carrot. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



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

 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 ripeiis 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, pods, and blossoms, in their 

 embryo and compact state, before they expand. It is 

 the same with Brocoli. Cauhflowers may be had to eat 

 in the fall, or in the spring- 

 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. 



To keep them through winter, there must not only 

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

 house to be kept warm by lire,) must have a covering in 

 severe weather. If you are too backward in sowing, 

 the heads no not begii^before the great heat comes ; and 

 in that case, they will not head till the fall. 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 warm place, in the 



