Feb.] T HE K I T C H E N G A R D E M. 6 J 



main. Plant them in a rich fpot of ground, allowing them 

 thirty inches, or a yard diilunce each way. 



Cauliflowers under hand or bell-glalles, fhould alfo be 

 thinned out, wlien there are too many; that is, if there are 

 more than one plant or two under each glafs, let all above 

 that number be tnken away. Oblerve to take up the 

 wcakell:, and let the Itrongeft remain under each glafs, and 

 draw fome earth up round their Hems at the lame time. 

 The plants which are taken up iliould be planted in another 

 fpot of ground, allowing them the fame diilance as aboye. 



In tranfplanting cauliflowers, it is the cuitom with fuch 

 gardeners as are obliged to make the moll of their ground, 

 to fow, on the fame piece, a crop of fpinach and radillies, 

 which turns out to good account, without in tlie leaf! re- 

 tarding the growth of the cauliflower-plants ; for by the 

 time they begin to advance any thing confiderably, the 

 radiihes and fpinach will be all cleared off for ufe ; but 

 when this is intended, it is moil eligible to fow the feed 

 before the cauliflowers are planted : a week or fortni<i^ht, 

 or more before, if thought necelfary. 



Ssivtng CauIiJio-iX-er- Seed, 



Sow cauliflower-feed the beginning of this month, to 

 raife fome plants to fuccced the early crops ; but in order 

 to bring the plants up foon, and to forward them twelve 

 days or a fortnight in their growth, it will be proper to fow 

 thefe in a flight hot-bed. 



Make the bed about twenty Inches thick of dung, and 

 put a frame on ; then lay four or five inches thick of rich 

 earth over the bed. 



Sow the feed on the furface, cover it with light earthy 

 about a quarter of an inch thick, and then put the glafs on. 



When the plants appear, let them have air every day, by 

 ralfmg theglafles a confiderable height ; and in mild wea- 

 ther the lights may be taken entirely ofl^ in the day-time, 

 for the plants mull not be kept too clofe, for that would 

 draw them up weak. 



But where there is not the convenience of a frame for 

 the above bed, you may cover it on nights, and in bad 

 weather with mats, fixing hoops, long flicks, or poles, 

 arch- ways acrofs, and over thefe draw the mats. 



Sprinkle them v/ith water ff cq^ucntly, if moderate fhow- 

 crs of rain do not fall. 



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