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In fact these precautions may not be used in Spring and 
Summer, and seed may be sown in open ground without the 
protection of frame and coverings, &c., but the risk is too 
great, and as the seed is very expensive and good plants can- 
not always be bought, the cost of time, labor and painstaking 
should be only a secondary consideration, and following these 
directions and precautions will be found profitable in growing 
not only Cauliflower but Cabbage plants. 
PLANTING AND CuLtivaTion. I have already given the dis- 
tances at which Cauliflower should be planted and advised 
marking the ground both ways in checkers, in the corners or 
intersections of which the plants are to be set or if you please 
the rows may be marked one way and the plants set in the 
rows by measure, using a marked pole on every seventh row 
to get them exact’ and setting the plants on the other rows di- 
rectly opposite those in the guide row already planted. Proper 
transplanting is of great importance, especially in Summer, 
when drouth is apt to prevail. Plants should be set, if possi- 
ble, in damp weather, but as this is one thing which we cannot 
govern, we sometimes have to water and experience has dem- 
onstrated that plants can be set even in extremely dry weather 
with success. 
The ground having been prepared and marked in checkers 
or rows if no rain appears when the plants are large enough 
to transplant, by means of a heavy pointed stick, long enough 
to admit of the operator walking upright, punch a hole at each 
intersection or where it is designed to set the plant; the soil 
being dry this will leave simply an indenture sufficient to re- 
ceive water, say one-half a pint or more, enough to wet the 
ground to a depth of three or four inches. Water can be carted 
to the field in barrels, and should be applied in the afternoon 
or toward evening and the plants set as soon as the water has 
settled away, but not while the ground is still muddy. Trans- 
planting should be done with great care, being very particular 
to open the holes with the dibble sufficiently largeto admit the 
roots of the plants without doubling up or cramping and to 
press the earth firmly about the roots and not about the stalk 
above. Planted in this way and receiving rain within a reason- 
able time, I have known many fields to surpass others which 
were planted in moist weather and followed by drought. 
