182 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



supplies of these early heads, as the prices they realise are an 

 ample recompense for any extra trouble taken over them. In 

 the French garden they are usually set out four to a light in 

 the shallow frames standing on beds of warm manure ; here 

 they are planted amongst carrots immediately after cabbage 

 lettuce are cleared (see page 96) and are ready for cutting 

 about the beginning of June. They are also set out on a similar 

 warm bed amongst the cloches (but not covered by them) at 

 the end of March or early in April, to follow the earliest cos 

 lettuce (see page 99) and are ready for cutting towards the end 

 of June. Much earlier supplies can be had by planting in 

 February on a bed of warm manure under cloches. In this 

 case one cauliflower plant is set in the centre and surrounded 

 with three or four cabbage lettuce of a small forcing type. 

 Very early supplies may also be had by planting in March over 

 a trench filled with warm manure and employing for protec- 

 tion one of the devices described on pages 134-5. 



The plants from the second autumn sowing are set out in 

 sheltered positions in the open as soon as genial weather comes 

 towards the end of March or beginning of April. They may be 

 set about 2ft. apart each way amongst cabbage or cos lettuce 

 which will be cleared before they seriously interfere with the 

 cauliflowers ; or they may be planted alone, in rows 2ft. apart, 

 18in. between the plants in the row; or they may be set Gin. 

 further apart in each direction amongst a crop of radishes, and 

 as soon as the radishes are cleared they are intercropped with 

 a row of lettuce between the rows of Cauliflower and one 

 set alternately between the plants in the row. 



Summer and autumn supplies are provided for by the plants 

 raised in frames in February and March and those raised in 

 the open in April. As stronger growing sorts are employed 

 for summer than for spring, and still stronger for autumn, they 

 must be planted at proportionately greater distances apart, 

 2ft. by 2ft. 6in. in the former case and 2ft. Gin. by 3ft. in the 

 latter being none too much. Both plantings may be inter- 

 cropped with advantage, the ground to be occupied by summer 

 Cauliflowers being previously sown with rows of summer 

 spinach at suitable distances apart, which becomes exhausted 

 by continual picking before the Cauliflowers need all the space, 



