128 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [Feb- 
of vegetation, and if protected for a few days, with garden pots or 
other suitable coverings, from too powerful a sun, and regularly at 
night for ten or twelve days after planting, you may reasonable ex- 
pect 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 pro- 
mote their early growth and strength, in order that they may ar- 
rive at due perfection before the commencement of the severe sum- 
mer heat, which is found so injurious to all late caulifloweis. 
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. 
Sowing Cauliflower Seed. 
Sow some cauliflower seed in a hot-bed, the beginning, middle, or 
at any time this month, but the earlier the better, vo succeed those 
sown in January, or incase none were sown at that time; for the me- 
thod 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 at- 
tention, you may succeed with coverings of mats, or boards and 
mats. 
Paper Frames. 
These frames are made either like the cover of a waggon 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 several 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 
from the wind, or on both sides if the weather is mild, and also for 
performing other necessary culture. 
The paper for this purpose should be of the larger strong printing 
or demy kind; which previously to pasting on the frame, should be 
moderately damped with water, that it may not sink in hollows af- 
ter being fixed; as soon as thus prepared, proceed to paste it on 
sheet by sheet, using for this purpose the very best kind of paste; 
and contrive to have whole ones, along the ridge-rail above, extend- 
ing lengthways and across, to join regularly with the sheets below; 
pasting the whole in the most regular and secure manner, to the 
