Vkh hedges, pales, or walls ; hut the firft is to be 
preferred, if made with reeds, becatife the winds will 
fall dead in thefe, and not reverberate as by pales or 
walls. This ground fhould be well trenched, bury- 
ing therein a good quantity of rotten dung •, then 
level your ground, and if it be naturally a wet foil, 
you fhould raife it up in beds about two feet and a 
half, or three feet broad, and four inches above the 
level of the ground •, but if your ground is moderately 
dry, you need not raife it at all : then plant your 
plants, allowing about two feet fix inches diftance 
from glafs to glafs, in the rows, always putting two 
good plants under each glafs, which may be at about 
four inches from each other ; and if you defign them 
for a full crop, they may be three feet and a half, 
row from row : but if you intend to make ridges for 
Cucumbers or Melons between the rows of Cauli- 
flower plants (as is generally pradtifed by the garden- 
ers near London,) you mult then make your rows 
eight feet afunder. 
When you have planted your plants, if the ground 
is very dry, you fhould give them a little water, and 
then fet your glafles over them, which may remain 
clofe down upon them, until they have taken root, 
which will be in about a week or ten days time, un- 
lefs there fhould be a kindly fliower of rain ; in which 
cafe you may fet off the glafles, that the plants may 
receive the benefit of it ; and in about ten days after 
planting, you fhould be provided with a parcel of 
forked flicks or bricks, with which you fhould raife 
your glafles about three or four inches on the fide 
toward the fouth, that your plants may have free air. 
In this manner your glafles fhould remain over the 
plants night and day, unlefs in frofty weather, when 
you fhould fet them down as clofe as poflible : or if 
the weather fhould prove very warm, which many 
times happens in November, and fometimes in De- 
cember ; in this cafe, you fhould keep your glafles 
off in the day-time, and put them on only in the night, 
left, by keeping the glafles over them too much, you 
fhould draw them into flower at that feafon, which is 
many times the cafe in mild winters, efpecially if un- 
Ikilfully managed. 
Toward the latter end of February, if the weather 
proves mild, you fhould prepare another good fpot 
of ground, to remove fome of the plants into from 
under the glafles, which fhould be well dunged and 
trenched (as before -,) then fet off the glafles, and, 
after making choice of one of the molt promifing 
plants under each glafs, which fhould remain for 
good, take away the other plant, by raifing it up with 
a trowel, &c. fo as to preferve as much earth to the 
root as poflible ; but have a great regard to the plant 
that is to remain, not to difturb or prejudice its roots : 
then plant your plants which you have taken out, at 
the diftance before diredted, viz. if for a full crop, 
three feet and a half, row from row •, but if for ridges 
of Cucumbers between them, eight feet, and two 
feet four inches diftance in the rows : then, with a 
fmall hoe, draw the earth up to the items of the 
plants which were left under the glafles, taking great 
care not to let the earth fall into their hearts ; and fet 
your glafles over them again, raifing your props an 
inch or two higher than before, to give them more 
air, obferving to take them off whenever there may 
be fome gentle ihowers, which will greatly refreih 
the plants. 
In a little time after, if you find your plants grow 
fo faft as to fill the glafles with their leaves, you 
fhould then flightly dig about the plants, and raife 
the ground about them in a bed broad enough for 
the glafles to ftand about four inches high, which 
will give your plants a great deal of room by raifing 
the glafles fo much higher, when they are fet over 
them *, and by this means they may foe kept covered 
until April, which otherwife they could not, without 
prejudice to the leaves of the plants : and this is a 
great advantage to them ; for many times we have 
returns of fevere frofts at the latter end of March, 
which prove very hurtful to thefe plants, if expofed 
thereto, efpecially after having been nurfed up under 
glafles. 
After you have finifhed your beds, you may let your 
glafles over your plants again, obferving to raife your 
props pretty high, efpeciaily if the weather be mild, 
that they may have free air to ftrengthen them ; and 
in mild foft weather fet off your glafles, as alfo in 
gentle fhowers of rain ; and now you muft begin to 
harden them by degrees to endure the open air :°how- 
ever, it is advifeable to let your glafles remain over 
them as long as poflible, if the nights fhould be frofty, 
which will greatly forward your plants ^ but be fure 
do not let your glafles remain upon them in very hot 
fun-fliine, efpecially if their leaves prefs againft the 
tides of the glafles - 3 for I have often obierved, in 
fuch cafes, that the moifture which hath rifen from 
the ground, together with the perfpiration of the 
plants, which, by the glafles remaining over them, 
hath been detained upon the leaves of the plants, 
and when the fun hath Ihone hot upon the Tides of the 
glafles, hath acquired fuch a powerful heat from the 
beams thereof, as to fcald all their larger leaves, to 
the no fmall prejudice of the plants : nay, fometimes 
I have feen large quantities of plants fo affedted there- 
with, as never to be worth any thing after. 
If your plants have fucceeded well, toward the end 
of April fome of them will begin to fruit ; you muft 
therefore look over them carefully every other day, 
and when you fee the flower plainly appear, you muft 
break down fome of the inner leaves over it to guard 
it from the fun, which would foake the flower yellow 
and unfightly, if expofed thereto •, and' when you find 
your flower at its full bignefs (which you may know 
by its outfide, parting, as if it would run,) you muft 
then draw it out of the ground, and not cut them off, 
leaving the ftalk in the ground, as is by fome prac- 
tifed ; and if they are deiigned for prefent ufe, you 
may cut them out of their leaves ; but if defigned to 
keep, you fhould preferve their leaves about them, 
and put them into a cool place : the belt time for 
pulling of them is in a morning, before the fun hath 
exhaled the moifture ; for Cauliflowers, pulled in the 
heat of the day, lofe that firmnefs which they natu- 
turally have, and become tough. 
But to return to our fecond crop (the plants being 
raifed and managed as was directed for the early crop, 
until the end of Odtober;) you muft then prepare 
fome beds, either to be covered with glafs-frames, or 
arched over with hoops, to be covered with mats, &c. 
Thefe beds fhould have fome dung laid at the bot- 
tom, about fix inches or a foot thick, according to 
the fize of your plants ; for if they are fmall, the bed 
fhould be thicker of dung, to bring them forward, 
and fo vice verfa : this dung fhould be beat down 
clofe with a fork, in order to prevent the worms from 
finding their way through it j then lay fome good 
frefh earth about four or five inches thick thereon, in 
which you fhould plant your plants about two inches 
and a half fquare, obferving to fhade and water them 
until they have taken frefh root : but be fure do not 
keep your coverings clofe, for the warmth of the 
dung will occafion a large damp in the bed, which, 
if pent in, will greatly injure the plants. 
When your plants have taken root, you muft give 
them as much free open air as poflible, by keeping 
the glafles off in the day-time as much as the weather 
will permit ; and in the night, or at fuch times as 
the glafles require to be kept on, raife them up with 
bricks or other props to let in frefh air, unlefs in 
frofty weather ; at which time the glafles fhould be 
covered with mats, ftraw, and Peafe-haulm, &c. but 
this is not to be done except in very hard frofts : you 
muft alfo obferve to guard them againft great rain, 
which in winter time is very hurtful to them •, but in 
mild weather, if the glafles are kept on, they fhould 
be propped to admit frefh air ; and if the under leaves 
grow yellow and decay, be fure to pick them off 
for if the weather fhould prove very bad in winter, 
fo that you fhould be obliged to keep them clofe co- 
vered for two or three days together, as it fometimes 
- happens. 
