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be kept in the same way as Celery tlirough the "Win- 

 ter. One ounce of seed will give five to six hundred 

 plants. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



Brassica oleracea hotrytis. 



The Cauliflower is so closely allied to the Broc- 

 coli, that the culture recommended for the one will 

 answer in every respect for the other. We usually 

 grow the Cauliflower as a Spring crop, and the Broc- 

 coli for a Fall crop. When the Cauliflower succeeds, 

 it is one of the most profitable crops grown by the 

 market-gardener ; and the private gardener, who is 

 successful with it, gives unusual satisfaction to his 

 employer. Caulifiowers rarely sell for less than 

 fifteen dollars per hundred, and, very often, well- 

 formed heads sell freely at eighteen or twenty dol- 

 lars per hundred by the quantity. 



Onr method is, to sow the seed about the 10th of 

 September (one ounce will give three thousand five 

 hundred plants), and in four or five weeks prick the 

 plants into cold frames, five or six hundred to a sash. 

 These frames are covered with sashes during the 

 Winter, which are opened on mild days to give air, 

 and removed as the weather grows warm towards 

 Spring. The seed may also be sown, in February, 

 in a hot-bed, and transplanted once or twice before 

 the final planting in the field. We have always suc- 

 ceeded better with cold-frame plants for Cauliflower. 



There is no. use in attempting to grow Cauli- 

 flower, with any hope of success, either in the gar- 

 den or field, on a poorly-worked or poorly-manured 



