316 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [April. 
moist loam, and agree exceedingly well with large quantities of 
manure. 
You should be provided with hand-glasses, garden-pots, or covers 
made of two boards, each a foot long, and nailed together at right 
angles, to cover every plant at night and in very severe weather 
for two or three weeks after planting; observing to take them oft' 
early each morning, except the weather is desperate, and never to 
keep a dark covering over the plants longer than necessity requires. 
This occasional protection is necessary to keep them in a con- 
stant and uninterrupted state of vegetation, for if stunted, at this 
period, by frost or too much cold, many will button, and very few 
produce large flowers. 
The early cauliflower plants, under hand-glasses, should have 
earth drawn up to their stems. This will be of a great service in 
promoting a strong forward growth. 
The hand or bell-glasses may still be continued over these plants 
at night, and cold wet weather; but in warm days, and when there 
are mild rains, let them be exposed to the free air; when the plants 
are considerably advanced in growth, the glasses should be raised 
proportionably high on props; first drawing a border of earth, two 
or three inches high or more, round each plant; then place the 
props upon that, and set the glasses thereon; but towards the end 
of this month, or beginning of next, they should be taken entirely 
away. 
The above instructions will suit any part of the Union, except 
as to time of planting, which should, in every place, be on the eve 
of the first brisk spring vegetation, when no danger can be appre- 
hended from subsequent frosts; and where this can be done in De- 
cember, January, or February with safety, so much the better. 
Young cauliflower plants, raised from seed sown last month, 
should now be pricked out into nursery beds, or some in a hot-bed, 
to forward them for final transplanting. See page 183. 
Sowing Caulifloiver Seed. 
Cauliflower seed may be sown, any time this month, in the open 
ground, to raise plants for heading in October, &c. 
For the further treatment of cauliflowers, see May. 
Cabbages. 
As early in this month as possible plant out your general crops 
of cabbage plants, observing to set all the early heading kinds at the 
distance of two feet and a half every way, and all the late sorts at 
that of three feet. 
As to soil and preparation, the nearer you approach in both to 
that directed for cauliflowers, the larger cabbages you will have; 
but where they are desired very early, you must adapt the soil and 
situation to that purpose. 
Some of the cabbage and savoy plants which were sown in March, 
for a succession of young summer and autumn cabbages, and a for- 
