New. Principles of Gardening. 
.. The beft Kind for pickling is the long prickly Cucumber, 
the choiceft of which leave for. Seed, as before direéted in See. 
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; [ ‘HE Collyflower is called in Latin Braffica florida; and 
Cauliflora, and in Italian Caulifiore, is one of the mok 
delicious boil’d Sallets that we have in England, and the mok 
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difficult to have of.a good Kind, 
The greateft Care herein, is to be well furnifh’d with good. 
Seed; otherwife all the Labour will prove unfuccefsful :- But 
that being taken for granted, about the beginning, or tenth 
Day of Augu/fi at lateft, prick or dig upa {mall Border that is 
in tolerable good Heart, and therein fow. your.Seed ; or if you 
have any decay’d Hot-Bed, .’tis better to make ufe of that, in 
which fow your Seed, giving it when dry gentle refrefhings. 
of Water, and when.the Plants are come up, and in. their firft 
Leaf, exclufive of their Seed Leaves, then tran{plant them upon 
fome other well prepared Bed, at about three or four Inches. 
diftance from each other; and therein ler them remain till near 
Michaelmas, at which time, ‘tis beft to tranfplant them. out 
for good in the Places where they are to bloflom:. And for 
fear of lofing any by Frofts, Gc. plant in every place where 
you intend one ta continue, five Plants,.and in fuch.a Com- 
pafs, as all to be.cover’d with a, (quare or.Bell-Glafs during 
the Severity of the Winter: And. if they all endure the Win- 
ter’s cold, ’tis.a very eafy thing for the Gardiner, with his 
Trowel, to take up and tranfplant fuch as are unneceffary in - 
that place, in.fome other prepared part of the Garden. 
But that we may. not be difappointed of a Crop, in Cafe 
we fhould lofe. all thofe planted out at Michaelmas.under the 
Glaffes, we muft, at the fame time, tranfplant other Plants, ei- 
ther on a very warm South Border, to be hooped and covered 
ter in time of Frofts.and. Snow, (which. laft.is. the. moft 
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