CAULIFLOWER. 
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CAULIFLOWER. 
Choufleur. Brassica oleracea botryiis. 
VARIETIES. 
Early White. I Late Wh te. 
Hardy Red, or Purple Cauliflower 
This is a first rate vegetable, to obtain which, great pains 
must be taken in every stage of its growth, the extremes of 
heat and cold being very much against it : which circum- 
stance accounts for good Cauliflowers being scarcely attain- 
able in unpropitious seasons, and which the novice falsely 
attributes to defectiveness of the seed. 
To produce early Cauliflower, the seed should be sown be- 
;ween the sixteenth and twenty-fourth of September, in a 
oed of clean, rich earth. In about four or five weeks after- 
ward, the plants should be pricked out into another bed, at 
the distance of four inches from each other every way ; this 
bed should be encompassed with garden frames, covered 
with glazed sashes, and boards or shutters ; the plants should 
be watered and shaded a few days till they have taken root ; 
they will afterward require light and air every mild day 
throughout the winter ; but the outsides of the frames must 
be so lined and secured, and the tops of the beds so covered, 
as to keep out all frost. 
The plants should be well attended to until the time of 
transplanting in the spring ; and those who have not hand or 
bell glasses, so as to enable them to set some out by the latter 
end of March, should have a frame ready about the last week 
in February, in order that they may be transplanted to the 
distance of eight or nine inches apart ; this would prevent 
them from buttoning or growing up weak; if this be not 
done, some of the strongest plants should be taken out of the 
beds and planted in flower pots, which may afterward be 
placed in a frame or greenhouse, until the weather be warm 
and settled, which may be expected soon after the middle of 
