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happens, thefe decayed leaves will render the inclofed 
air very noxious ; and the plants perfpiring pretty 
much at that time, are often deftroyed in vaft quan- 
tities. 
In the beginning of February, if the weather proves 
mild, you muft begin to harden your plants by degrees, 
that they may be prepared for tranfplantation ; and 
the ground where you intend to plant your Cauli- 
flowers out for good (which fhould be quite open 
from trees, &c. and rather moift than dry,) having 
been well dunged and dug, fhould be fown with Ra- 
difhes a week or fortnight before you intend to plant 
out your Cauliflowers : the reafon why I mention the 
lowing of RadiPnes particularly, is this, viz. that if 
there are not fome Radifhes amongft them, and the 
month of May fhould prove hot and dry, as itfome- 
times happens, the fly will feize your Cauliflowers, 
and eat their leaves full of holes, to their prejudice, 
and fometimes their deftrudtion ; whereas, if there 
are Radifhes upon the fpot, the flies will take to them, 
and never meddle with the Cauliflowers fo long as 
they laft. Indeed, the gardeners near London mix 
Spinach with their Radifh-feed, and fo have a double 
crop, which is an advantage where ground is dear, 
or where perfons are ftraitened for room •, otherwife it 
is very well to have only one crop amongft the Cau- 
liflowers, that the ground may be cleared in time. 
Your ground being ready, and the feafon good, 
about the middle or end of February, you may begin 
to plant out your Cauliflowers : the diftance which 
is generally allowed by the gardeners near London 
(who plant other crops between their Cauliflowers to 
fucceed them, as Cucumbers for pickling, and winter 
Cabbages) is every other row four feet and a half 
apart, and the intermediate rows two feet and a half, 
and two feet two inches diftance in the rows ; fo that 
in the latter end of May, or beginning of June (when 
the Radifhes and Spinach are cleared off,) they put 
in feeds of Cucumbers for pickling, in the middle of 
the wide rov/s, at three feet and a half apart ; and 
in the narrow rov/s, plant Cabbages for winter ufe, 
at two feet two inches diftance, fo that thefe ftand 
each of them exadtly in the middle of the fquare be- 
tween four Cauliflower-plants ; and thefe, after the 
Cauliflowers are gone off, will have full room to grow, 
and the crop be hereby continued in a fucceffion thro’ 
the whole feafon. 
About three weeks or a month after your Cauliflow- 
ers are planted out, the Radifhes between them will 
be fit to hoe •, at which time, when you are hoeing 
out the Radifhes where they are too thick, you fhould 
cut off all fuch as grow immediately about the Cauli- 
flowers, and would prove hurtful to them, by draw- 
ing them up tall and weak •, and alfo at that time 
draw the earth up to the ftems of the plants, being 
careful not to let any get into their hearts (as was 
before direfted;) and when your Radifhes are fit to 
pull, be fure to clear round the Cauliflowers firft, and 
keep drawing the earth up to their ftems as they ad- 
vance in height, which will keep their ftems from be- 
ing hardened by the weather, and be of fingular fer- 
vice to your plants. 
There are many people who are very fond of water- 
ing Cauliflower-plants in fummer, but the gardeners 
near London have almoft wholly, laid afide this prac- 
tice, as finding a deal of trouble and charge to little 
purpofe ; for if the ground be fo very dry as not to 
produce tolerable good Cauliflowers without water, 
it feldom happens, that watering them renders them 
much better ; and when once they have been watered, 
if it is not conftantly continued, it had been much 
better for them if they never had any •, as alfo if it be 
-given them in the middle of the day, it rather helps 
to fcald them : fo that, upon the whole, if care be 
taken to keep the earth drawn up to their ftems, and 
clear them from every thing that grows near them, 
that they may have free open air, you will find that 
they will fucceed better without than with water, 
where any of thefe' cautions are not ft rifely obferved. 
When your Cauliflowers begin to fruit, you muft 
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often look over them, to turn down their leaves, as- 
was before directed, to preferve their whitenefs and 
when they are full grown, obferve the former direc- 
tions in, pulling them, &c. but wherever you meet 
with an extraordinary good Cauliflower, whofe curd 
is hard and white, and perfectly free from any frothi- 
nefs about the edges, you fhould fuffer it to remain 
for feed, keeping the leaves ciofe down upon it un- 
til the flower hath fhot out ftems, and then remove 
the leaves from them by degrees, but do not expofe 
them too much to the open air at firft. As the ftems 
advance, you muft take the leaves quite av/ay 5 and 
when they begin to branch out, you fhould fix three 
pretty ftrong flakes, at equal angles, about it, fur-,, 
rounding them with packthread, &c. to fupport their 
branches, which would be otherwife liable to break 
with the wind. 
When your pods begin firft to be formed, if the 
weather proves dry, you fhould give them a little 
water all over (with a watering-pot that hath a rofe 
to it ;) which will promote the prog refs of the feeds, 
and preferve them from mildew, which is often hurt- 
ful to the feeds 5 and, when your feeds are ripe, 
you muft cut it off, and hang it up to' dry, and rub 
it out as was directed for Cabbage-feed : and although, 
your flowers do not produce fo much feed as thole 
which v/ere of a fofter or frothy nature, yet the good- 
nefs of fuch feeds will fufficiently recompenfe for the 
quantity •, and any perfon who was to purchafe his 
feeds, had better give ten fh filings an ounce for fuch 
feed than two for the feeds commonly faved for fale, 
as the gardeners about London have experienced, 
who will never buy any feeds of this kind, if they do 
not know how they were faved. 
But in order to have a third crop of Cauliflowers, 
you fhould make a flender hot-bed in February, in 
which you fhould fow the feeds, covering them a 
quarter of an inch thick with light mould, and co- 
vering the bed with glafs-frames : you fhould now 
and then gently refrefh the bed with water, obferving 
to raife the glaffes with bricks or props in the day- 
time, to let in frefh air ■, and when the plants are 
come up, and have gotten four or five leaves, you 
fhould prepare another hot-bed to prick them into, 
which may be about two inches fquare ; and in the 
beginning of April harden them by degrees, to fit 
them for tranfplanting, which fhould be done the 
middle of that month, at the diftance dire&ed for 
the fecond crop, and muft be managed accordingly : 
thefe (if the foil is moift where they are planted, or 
the feafon cool and moift) will produce good Cauli- 
flowers about a month after the fecond crop is gone, 
whereby their feafon will be greatly prolonged. 
J here is alfo a fourth crop of Cauliflowers, which 
is railed by lowing the feed about the 23d of. May j 
and being tranfplanted, as hath been before directed, 
will produce good Cauliflowers in a kindly feafon 
and good foil, after Michaelmas, and continue thro* 
October and November ; and, if the feafon permit, 
often a great part of December. 
The reafon why I fix particular days for the fowing of 
this feed, is becaufe two or three days often make a 
great difference in their plants ; and becaufe thefe are 
the days ufually fixed by the gardeners near London, 
who have found their crops to fucceed beft when 
fown at thofe times, although one day, more or lefs, 
will make no great odds. I have alfo, in this edition, 
altered the days to the nevfr ftyle. 
B R E Y N I A. See Capparis. 
BROMELIA. Plum. Nov. Gen. 46. tab. 8. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 356. 
The Characters are, 
It hath a three-cornered permanent empalement cut Into 
three parts , , upon which the germen is fituated . The 
flower hath three long narrow petals , which are eredt , 
each having a nedtarium joined to it above the bafe. It 
hath ft x ftamina the length of the petals , which are ter- 
minated by oblong fummits. The germen is fituated below 
the receptacle , fupporting a fender ftyle , crowned by a 
trifld obtufte ftigma. The empalement afterward becomes 
Q... -! cm 
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