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not able immediately to extract the necessary supply of nourish- 
ment from the earth, consequently become stunted, and either but- 
ton, or grow so miserably as never to produce a good head. 
When transplanted and furnished as above, and the proper 
season arrives for planting them out in the open ground, they are 
to be taken up separately with a hollow trowel or transplanter, pre- 
serving as much earth as possible about the roots of each plant, and 
deposited where they are to flowerj thus treated they will scarcely 
be sensible of the removal, will continue in a constant and regular 
state of vegetation, and if protected for a few days with garden 
pots or other suitable coverings from too powerful a sun, and regu- 
larly at night, for ten or twelve days after planting, you may rea- 
sonably expect the desired success. 
As it is from these early sowings that the greatest success may 
be expected in the United States, every care should be taken to 
promote their early growth and strength, in order that they may 
arrive at due perfection before the commencement of the severe 
summer heat, which is found so injurious to all late cauliflowers. 
Continue to give a due quantity of air to your cauliflower plants 
at all favourable opportunities; for, as observed in January, it is an 
extremely essential article. 
Solving Cauliflower Seed. 
Sow some cauliflower seed in a hot-bed the beginning, middle, or 
at any time this month, but the earlier the better, to succeed those 
sown in January, or in case none were sown at that time; for the 
method of doing which, see page 20. 
If you have not the convenience of glass lights, these plants may 
be raised with good success in paper frames, or with particular 
attention you may succeed with coverings of mats, or boards and 
mats. 
Paper Frames. 
These frames are made either like the cover of a wagon or the 
roof of a house, and covered with oiled paper instead of glass. 
They have a frame of wood at the base, to which in the former 
broad hoops are fastened bent over circularly. The width of the 
frame should be near five feet, the length nine or ten; the distance 
between the hoops not more than a foot, and there should be seve- 
ral rows of strong pack thread or rope yarn running from hoop to 
hoop all over, distant from each other about eight inches, and other 
lines crossing and intersecting these between the hoops or ribs of 
the frame, which arrangements of lines are of essential service for 
the more effectual support of the paper when pasted on the frame, 
and to strengthen it against the power of winds and heavy rains. 
The other sort of frame may be made with slips of pine or neat 
laths, fastened to a roof-tree at the top, and to the base-frame at 
bottom. The pannels or lights ought to have hinges alternately at 
each side, to open outward for giving air occasionally on the side 
