1Q4 TIIE KITCHEN GARDEN. [March. 



You must be very particular during this month, especially when 

 the weather gets warm, to give your cauliflower plants plenty of 

 air, otherwise they will draw up weakly, and be good for nothing; 

 but at the same time, do nol let them be chilled, nor their vegetation 

 checked, bv exposing them too much in cold weather, or neglecting 

 to cover them carefully at night; expose them fully to the air every 

 mild and warm day, but not when the wind is sharp or cutting, and 

 raise the glasses behind in more unfavourable weather. 



On the judicious treatment given to these plants during this 

 month depends, in a great measure, their future success; therefore 

 due and constant attention should be paid to them, agreeably to the 

 rules already laid down. 



As the beginning or early part of next month will be the princi- 

 pal period for planting out cauliflowers in the middle and eastern 

 states, I am induced to defer the instructions for performing that 

 part of the business till April; observing, however, that in every 

 part of the Union it should be done as early in spring as the ground 

 gets warm and into a good state of vegetation, not before; for, 

 when that is not the case, the plants very frequently get chilled and 

 stunted by the coldness of the earth and air, and seldom afterwards 

 produce good heads. 



You may sow some cauliflower seed on a warm border towards 

 the latter end of the month, to produce their flowers or heads in 

 October, &c. 



Cabbage Plants. 



During the early part of this month the cabbage plants, which are 

 in a considerable state of forwardness, must be well inured to the 

 open air, the better to prepare them lor planting out as soon after 

 the middle of the month as the weather will permit. Those pro- 

 duced from later sowings in hot-beds will, to do them justice, re- 

 quire the same management as directed for cauliflower plants. 



Planting and Sowing Cabbages. 



As early in this month as you find the weather sufficiently 

 favourable, which, in the middle states, is generally so about the 

 fifteenth or twentieth, transplant cabbage plants of all kinds, par- 

 ticularly the early sorts, where they are to remain for heading; 

 this, in warm situations and dry ground, may be done at an earlier 

 period, according to circumstances. 



Let them be planted in good ground enriched with dung, at two 

 feet and a half distance for the early York, sugar-loaf, and other 

 early kinds; but the large late cabbage plants should be set a yard 

 asunder. 



The above distances are to be understood of such plants as are to 

 remain to grow to their full si/.e; but such of the forward kinds as 

 arc to be cut while young, may be planted closer; eighteen inches 

 to two feet will be sufficient. 



Plant out also a general crop of red cabbage plants, to head in 



