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drawing the daily supply. To preserve for winter use, remove to 
a cellar, or protect them where they stand. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
1. Early Asiatic. 2. Late Dutch. 
The seed of the early varieties should be sown in seed-beds the 
beginning of autumn, kept in a cold frame, protected from severe 
frost during winter, and transplanted to very rich ground as soon 
as frost ceases. When first put out, hand-glasses, or inverted 
flower-pots, should be placed over the plants at night. The late 
variety matures in autumn, and should be sown at the same time, 
and managed the same as Cape Brocoli, which see. It is not, 
however, so certain to succeed as the Brocoli, which it resembles 
in quality, nor is a better vegetable when obtained. 
CELERY. 
1. White Solid. 3. Celeriac, or Turnip-rooted. 
2. Red Solid. \ 
Early in the spring, prepare a small bed of light rich earth, in 
a warm and moist situation, and convenient to water, in which sow 
the seed for an early crop. Break the mould very fine, as the 
seed is small, and rake the surface even. Sow the seed, but not 
too thickly, and cover with light rich mould, about a quarter of an 
inch deep. Give water freely in dry weather as the plants make 
progress. The plants should be kept thin in the seed-bed, and 
pricked out when fit upon the surface of fresh earth, well manured. 
They should be watered and shaded until they take root; and, in 
drawing from the seed-bed, let some of the strongest plants re- 
main, to be put out for an early drill. They should be planted 
out before they become too strong. If they have acquired a large 
ball of earth and roots, these and the straggling leaves on the 
sides should be cut away, in part, before planting out to remain. 
The transplanting should be repeated at intervals of two or three 
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