Al/<.r.] TlIF, CULINARY GARDEN. ^07 



AUGUST. 



SOWING CAULIFLOWER. 



Cauliflowers for the early crops of next year are to be sown 

 this month at the middle, and again at the end of it. Long 

 experience has taught the London market-gardeners to sow 

 upon the 21st of the month, but that any one day in particular 

 should be chosen, appears ridiculous. If they be sown too 

 soon in the month, they are apt to button ; and if too late, thdy 

 will not be sufficiently strong to weather the winter. The first 

 sowing may be made the end of the second week, and the se- 

 cond sowing the middle of the third. Sow on a border of light 

 earth, and give water if the state of the weather demand it. 



SOWING SPINACH FOR WINTER AND SPRING USE. 



Spinach should be sown both at the beginning and also at 

 the end of this month, to produce a supply during autumn, 

 winter, and the spring months, until the spring-sown crops 

 come in to succeed it. The prickly-seeded sort is to be pre- 

 ferred for this sowing, as being less tender than the round- 

 seeded kind, and better calculated to stand the severity of the 

 winter. Ground intended for spinach cannot well be too 

 highly manured, as the larger and more succulent the herb is, 

 the more it is esteemed. Spinach, however, when too strong, 

 will not stand the winter so well as that, which is less suc- 

 culent. Still, if the weather be mild, such strong crops will 

 afford an abundant winter supply. As at this season there will 

 be plenty of spare garden-ground, we have found it to be 

 good practice to sow a piece of ground, slightly manured, 

 with this crop, as a substitute for the other, should it fail 

 during the winter. Whichever mode is adopted, it is neces- 

 sary to choose a sheltered, but not a shaded situation for it, 

 that is, one that is dry and well exposed to the sun. In wet 

 soils, ridges may be formed a foot or eighteen inches high, on 



