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should be pricked out to a distance of six inches apart each 

 way. The soil in the frame should be kept rather dry, for 

 if very damp, and the frames are not kept well aired on 

 sunny, mild days, the plants will be liable to damp off. 



Cauliflower seed may also be sown in a hot-bed in Janu- 

 ary or February, and when the plants are two or three 

 inches high they should be transplanted, two or three inches 

 apart, into boxes or into a spent hot-bed, until the proper 

 time arrives for planting them in the open ground. Such 

 plants, however, do not succeed quite as well as those 

 wintered over. 



The best two sorts are the 



Early Erfurt ; an early, dwarf-growing variety, pro- 

 ducing good sized, uniformly close, compact heads. 



Early Walcheren; is the same as the broccoli of the 

 same name, and, as before stated, it can hardly be deter- 

 mined whether it is a cauliflower or a broccoli. It is pos- 

 sibly a cross between the two. This succeeds so much 

 better as an autumn crop than any other cauliflower, that 

 we do not recommend any of the true cauliflowers for that 

 purpose. Its cultivation as an autumn crop is found under 

 the head of broccoli. 



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This 18 a somewhat troublesome vegetable to grow, as it 

 requires a great deal of management and much labor, 

 especially if the larger sorts are grown in the old method 

 of deep trenches and high banking up. Of late years 

 dwarfer sorts have been introduced, and a less laborious 

 and troublesome method of growing and blanching it has 

 become more general. By some of our later writers on 

 gardening the present method has been claimed to be a 

 new one, but it was in iise thirty or more years ago. 



