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times happens, the Fly will feize 

 Jour Cauliflowers, and eat them full 

 of Holes, to their Prejudice, and 

 fometimes their Delhuclion : where- 

 as if there are Radifhes upon the 

 Spor, the Flies will take to them, 

 and nt-ver meddle with the Cauli- 

 flowers fo long as they lair : indeed, 

 the Gardeners near Lev don mix Spi- 

 nach with their Radifh-feed, and fo 

 have a double Crop ; which is an 

 .Advantage where Ground is dear, 

 or that Perfons are llreightened for 

 room ; otherwife it is very well to 

 have only one Crop amongit. the 

 Cau'iflowcrs, that tne Ground may 

 be clear'd in time. 



Your Ground being ready, and 

 the Seafon good, about the Middle 

 of Feb u. ry, you may begin to plant 

 cut your Caul flowers : the Diftance 

 which is generally allowed by the 

 Gardeners near London (who plant 

 other Crops between their Cauli- 

 flowi rs to fucceed them,a:-Cucumbers 

 for pick'ing, and Winter-cabbages) 

 is every other Row four Feet and an 

 half, and the intermediate Rows two 

 and an half, and two Feet two Inches 

 Diftance in the Rowo ; fo that in the 

 Middle, or towards the Latter-end 

 of Map (when the Radifhes and Spi- 

 nach are cle tl6 off*-, they put in 

 Seecs of Cucumbers for Pickling, in 

 the Middle of the wide Rows, at 

 three Fee t and an h; j lf apart ; and in 

 the narrow Rows, plant Cabbages 

 for Winter- ufe, at two Feet two 

 Inches Diftance, lb that thefe fiand 

 each of them exactly in the Middle 

 of the Square between four Cauli- 

 flower plants ; and thefe, after the 

 Caul flowers are gone off, will have 

 full room to grow, and the Crop be 

 hereby continued in a Succemon 

 tiirough the whole Seafon. 



About three Weeks or a Month 

 after your Cauliflowers arc; planted 

 out, the Radifhes between them will 



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be fit to hoe ; at which time, when 

 you are hoeing out the Radifhes, 

 where they are too thick, you fliould 

 cut off all fuch as grow immediately 

 about the Cauliflowers, and would 

 prove hurtful to them, by drawing 

 them up tall and weak ; and alio at 

 that time draw the Earth up to the 

 Stems of the Plants, being careful 

 not to let any get into their Hearts 

 (as Was before directed) ; and when 

 your Radifhes are fit to pull, be fure 

 to clear round the Cauliflowers fir ft, 

 and keep drawing the Earth up to 

 their Stems as they advance in 

 Height ; which will keep their Stems 

 from being hardened by the Weather, 

 and be of fingular Service to your 

 Plants. 



There are many People, who are 

 very fond of watering Cauliflower- 

 plants in Summer ; but the Garden- 

 ers near London have almoft wholly 

 laid afide this Practice, as finding a 

 deal of Trouble and Charge to little 

 Purpofe ; for if the Ground be fo 

 very dry as not to produce tolerable 

 good Cauliflowers without Water, it 

 ieldom happens, that watering of 

 them renders them much better; and 

 when once they have been watered, 

 if it is not conftantly continued, it 

 had been much better for them, if 

 they never had had any ; as alfo, if 

 it be given them in the Middle of 

 the Day, it rather helps to fcald 

 them : fo that, upon the Whole, if 

 Care be taken to keep the Earth 

 drawn up to their Stem?, and clear 

 them from every thing that grows 

 near them, that they may have free 

 open Air, they will fucceed better 

 without than with Water,where thefe 

 Cautions are not ftridtly followed. 



W'hen you'r Cauliflowers begin to 

 fruit, you muff often look over 

 them, to turn down their Leaves, aa 

 was before directed, to preferve their 

 Whitencfs ; and when they arc full 

 grown, 



