V. CAULIFLOWER. 



having endeavoured one year, to raise cauliflowers in 

 Pennsylvania, where they will not flower in summer on 

 account of the excessive heat, which continually keeps 

 the heart open and prevents the head from coming up, 

 took my plants, in the month of November, when their 

 heads were just beginning to appear, and buried them in 

 the garden, according to the fashion of that country, ob- 

 served in the burying of cabbages j that is to say, to 

 place the cabbages along in a row, close to each other, 

 the head upon the level ground, and the roots standing 

 up in the air, and then to go on each side with a spade, 

 and throw up earth in such a manner as completely to 

 cover the heads and the leaves of the cabbages. Indeed, 

 my cauliflowers went into the ground in company with 

 some cabbages } and, to my great surprize, when we took 

 up the part of the stock in which the cauliflowers were, 

 the greater part of them had heads as big as an ordinary 

 tea-cup. But, this method would not do in England j 

 for we have wet as well as frost -, and, in Pennsylvania, 

 when once the earth is safely locked up by the frost, 

 there comes no wet to sink into little ridges such as I 

 have described. I think, however, that, if hung up by 

 the heels in a barn or a shed in November, cauliflowers 

 would augment their size as much as if put into sand in 

 a cave. If you attempt to save cauliflower-seed, no 

 pains that you can take would possibly be too great. 

 First look over your stock of heads : you will see some 

 of them less compact than the others : more uneven, and 

 more loose : round the edges of the heads, you will see 

 almost perfect smoothness in some, and, in others, you 

 will see a little sort of fringe appearing even before the 

 head comes to its full bigness ; and these heads which 



