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cauliflower at that season, is worth some trouble^ 

 and even some expense ; for, at that very season, 

 the people of New York, are carrying home 2i;i7<f 

 dock leaves from market^ bought at three or four 

 cents a handful ! This is the way to go to work to 

 have Brocoli at this season. Five rows, across one 

 of the Plats in the garden, will contain 110 plants. 

 The space they will occupy will be 56 feet long, 

 and lO.f feet wide from out-side row to out-side row. 

 Now, all this space must have a covering during 

 the time that the ground is completely locked up by 

 the frost. And this is the way to cover it. Before 

 the ground be hard frozen, put some stout stakes in 

 the ground on both out-sides of the out-side rows, 

 and at about a foot from the stems of the plants. 

 Let these stakes be about a foot higher than the 

 tops of the leaves of the plants ; and that will make 

 the stakes about four feet high. Let these stakes 

 (which should not be less than three inches through) 

 have Si fork at the upper end to lodge a pole upon 

 to go from stake to stake across the plantation. 

 That these poles may not bend in the middle, by- 

 and-by, when the covering is put on, put another 

 row of forked stakes along the middle, or near the 

 middle of the plantation. From out-side row of 

 stakes to out-side row of stakes will be twelve feet, 

 and a half. The stakes are to be four feet asunder 

 in the long rows, and they will be about six feet 

 asunder across the plantation. Lay stovt poles 

 across, and let each pole rest in the forks of ther 

 three stakes. Then tie some stout rods longways 

 upon the poles, at about nine inches from each 

 other. Then some small rods across them at nine 

 inches from each other. Then tie small rods along 

 the sides and at the ends from stake to stake, nine 

 inches apart, and upright rods against these, nine 

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