The Traciical Kitchen Gardiner, 



this conclades all that can be faid as to 

 the fowing of the ufeful Braffica fiorida^ 

 or collyflower, fuperior to all the other 

 kinds, inafmuch as it may be had in 

 fome degree of perfedion almoft every 

 month in the yeat. 



Some of the firft fown of thefe col- 

 lyflowers fhould, as is before fet down^ 

 be planted out in September:, or the be- 

 ginning of October 5 tho' about London^ 

 where the ground is warm, they let it 

 alone till the beginning of November^ 

 into bell-ridges, four or five under a glafs,, 

 and on a bed of dung moderately heat- 

 ed, where they ftand all the winter, be- 

 ing in all dangerous weather cover d 

 with mats, to keep the plants from be- 

 ing frozen and fpoil'd 5 where letting 

 them remain till towards the latter end 

 of February y or beginning of March^ 

 the dung whereon they were planted 

 will be rotted, fo as that you may ex- 

 cavate it all tound the bell-glafs, and 

 new dung may be trod in, as is ufual 

 in all dccay'd beds. And then it is that 

 new heat and life being imparted to 

 the roots, and the fun getting ftrength 

 likewife, the flowers under the bells 

 will grow apace, and come in early and 

 in good time. All 



