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dry, well watered before planting as 

 well as afterwards. The best time for 

 pricking out young plants of any kind in 

 dry weather, is late in the afternoon or 

 in the evening. By this attention, 

 strong healthy plants will be ready for 

 either finally planting out under hand- 

 glasses, about the middle of October, or 

 for protection in frames or at the foot of 

 walls. These protected plants are to 

 form a second crop to those which were 

 planted out under the hand-glasses, and 

 may be finally planted out toward the 

 end of February, if the weather is fa- 

 vourable, two feet and a half asunder 

 each way ; and should severe weather 

 set in again, flower-pots just large 

 enough to cover the plant may be turned 

 over each, but taken off in all favourable 

 weather. Care should always be taken 

 to lift up the plants out of the nursery- 

 beds, so as to ensure uninjured roots. 



Should the weather be very severe in 

 the winter, the hand-glass crop must 

 have a little protection more than that of 

 the hand-light itself. But particular at- 

 tention should be paid to airing at all 

 times when the weather will permit, by 

 either taking the lights entirely off, or 

 tilting them. 



If, through some mismanagement or 

 misfortune, the winter stock should be- 

 come short, a sowing towards the end of 

 January becomes of importance. A very 

 little seed must then be sown in a pan or 

 box, placed in some moderate heated 

 structure, or in a gentle hotbed made up 

 for the purpose ; and when the seedlings 

 are up, and large enough to handle, they 

 should be pricked out on other very 

 gentle hotbeds, care being taken to keep 

 the plants up close to the glass, and in- 

 ured to the open air. Plants raised in 

 this way will be nearly as forward as 

 those sown in August, and protected in 

 cold frames through the winter. 



The second Solving should be at the 

 end of February or beginning of March, 

 and then either in a cold frame, or warm 

 open border, or if the weather be very 

 unfavourable, a sowing may be made on 

 a very gentle hotbed even at this time, 

 attention to pricking-out, &c., given as 

 before directed. From this sowing a 

 third planting is made. 



The third Sowing should be made about 



the last week in April, or first week in 

 May, and the seedlings attended to as 

 before, as to pricking-out, &c. From 

 this sowing a fourth planting is made. 



Fitness for Use. When a cauliflower 

 has arrived at its full size, which is 

 shown by the border opening as if it was 

 about to run, pull up the plant, as it 

 never produces any useful sprouts, and 

 if hung up thus entire in a cool place, it 

 be may preserved for several days. The 

 best time to cut a cauliflower, is early of a 

 morning before the dew is evaporated ; 

 if it is done during the meridian or after- 

 noon of a hot day, it loses much of its 

 firmness, and boils tough. 



To preserve from Frost. As frost de- 

 stroys the cauliflower, it is a practice in 

 November, before it sets in, to pull up 

 the late standing plants, and the leaves 

 being tied over the head, to hang each 

 up in a coal-shed or cellar, by which 

 means they remain good for some time. 

 But a better mode is to bury them in 

 sand, laying them in alternate layers with 

 the earth, in a dry situation by this 

 means they may be preserved to the 

 close of January or they may be put in 

 a trench dug at the bottom of a wall, 

 eighteen inches wide and deep, the plants 

 being laid with their roots uppermost in 

 an inclining position, so that the roots of 

 the second covered the top of the one 

 preceding. The earth to be laid over 

 them thick, a considerable slope given to 

 it, and beaten smooth with the spade to 

 throw off rain. 



Saving Seed. Some should be from 

 the first planted out of the hand-glass 

 crop. The best with well formed heads 

 should be selected for this purpose, and 

 marked for seed, by placing a strong 

 stake to each for the future tying of 

 the flowering stems up to. Gather each 

 branch of seed as it ripens. 



Diseases and Insects. See CABBAGE 

 and BROCOLI. 



CAULOPHY'LLTJM. (From Jcaulon, a 

 stem, aivlphyllon, a leaf ; in reference to 

 the stems ending as if it were in a leaf- 

 stalk. Nat. ord.,.zW#mVfe[Berberidaceae]. 

 luirni^Q-Hexandria, \-monogynia). Hardy 

 tuberous perennial; division of the roots ; 

 light sandy peat. 



C. thalictroi'des (Thalictrum-like) . 1. Yellow 

 green. North America. 1755. 



