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HOW TO GROW 



is best to cart water and wet each place a little 

 before setting the plant ; don't do it afterwards, as it 

 leaves the ground hard and baked around the 

 plants. Never use salt water, for it will kill them 

 all. Generally, there is no need of carting water, 

 for when the ground is properly worked, it will be 

 moist enough to set out the young plants even in 

 the driest time. As a rule, it does not pay to set 

 out in the fore part of the day, and not till after 

 three o'clock in the afternoon of a very hot day. 



CULTIVATION. 



The cultivation should always be level. The 

 cultivator should be run quite deep the first and 

 second times through, both ways, afterwards quite 

 shallow. Cultivate as long as possible without 

 breaking off the leaves. After that it would be an 

 injury to them to continue cultivation, as their roots 

 run over the ground, a good deal like corn roots. 

 Nothing further needs to be done till they begin to 

 head. 



TYING AND BLEACHING. 



Cauliflowers, if left to grow without covering, are 

 not, as a rule, worth anything, but if covered at 

 the proper time, will generally come out white and 

 nice. The whiter they are, the more money they 

 will bring in market. Commence to tie them up 

 when the heads are about the size of a coffee cup, 

 taking two rows at a time, and tying them with 

 their leaves lapping one over the other till suffi- 

 cient to shade them nicely from the sun, tucking 



