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duce this result such as leaving them too long in 

 the seed-bed, withholding water, poor soil, too 

 much crowding. After the plants are set out, a 

 cold rainy time or badly drained land may have 

 the same effect; also a very hot time, if the soil is 

 dry and the plants are not growing well. The 

 check occasioned by the transplanting may also 

 cause the plants to button, if they have become 

 large, and the soil or weather is unfavorable. On 

 this account it is unsafe to let cauliflower plants 

 get as large as cabbage plants sometimes are when 

 transplanted. 



I will close this topic by quoting two paragraphs 

 from The Garden, an English journal from which 

 I have already taken much valuable information. 

 The first is by a person who signs himself " D. T. 

 F.," who says: 



"Cambrian [a previous writer] attributes this to 

 over- manuring, and no doubt this frequently causes 

 buttoning, but over- frosting is quite as injurious as 

 over -manuring; and the hard frost which we had 

 here on the 1st of April seems to be sending all the 

 exposed plants into buttons, whilst those protected 

 only with glass lights seem safe and sound and are 

 spreading their leaves wide and looking extremely 

 promising." 



The next writer, Mr. Gilbert, adds: 



" The whole of my Early London cauliflowers 



