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Hoxs) to preserve Cauliflowers. 



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folding down: you can, as often as may be judged necessary, 

 paint or pitch the inside of the boxes, which will, if properly 

 attended to, make them last, if made of good wood, for twenty 

 years. Another advantage they have over the boxes alluded 

 to is, that you can take the trees out of one box and place them 

 in others without taking them to pieces, which you cannot do 

 with the others, as they are made of strong framed posts so 

 joined together that it is impossible to take out your trees ; 

 and besides, only two of their sides are moveable. In taking 

 this box to pieces you have only to pull up the two iron bars, 

 and gently pull out two of the sides (a) ; the remaining sides 

 lift up. I generally fill up all the bottom of the tubs with 

 broken brick, tiles, and turf for draining, so as to be level with 

 the top of the bottom bars. 



If you think these two things worth Mr. Loudon's notice, 

 you will particularly oblige me by sending them to him. 



I have been able to keep cauliflower for a length of time 

 by cutting them in a dry day, stripping off all the leaves, and 

 then burying them among bog mould. The idea first struck 

 me in Scotland, from considering that bog mould was 

 antiseptic, and capable of resisting putrefaction, particularly 

 if excluded from atmospheric air. I covered some heads of 

 cauliflower in July, under the rubbish taken from the bottom 

 of an old peat stack, and in November following, found them 

 still fit for use. I pointed out to your brother some this year 

 at Stratton, that had been laid up six weeks,, and still good; 

 this I was, in consequence of the long drought, obliged to do ; 

 and for weeks it was sent to table, and found as good as if 

 newly cut : it is necessary to wash them well, as they are 

 very black when taken out- 



I am, dear Sir, &c. 



Charles Mac Intosh. 



Stratton Park, 

 November 29,4825. 



