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CAULIFLOWER. 
April. They should then be turned out with the balls of 
earth entire, and transplanted into a bed of the richest earth 
in the garden, at the distance of two feet and a half from 
each other every way; the residue may be taken up from the 
frame the last week in April, or earlier, if the season proves 
mild, by means of a garden trowel, and transplanted as 
above * 
The plants should afterward be well cultivated, by hoeing 
the ground deep around them, and bringing some earth grad- 
ually up to their stem, so as to push them forward before the 
approach of warm weather. When the soil has been drawn 
up to the plants some little time, fork the ground between the 
rows lightly over, which will promote their growth. They 
should be liberally supplied with water in dry weather; those 
out of flower twice a week, and those in, every other day, 
which will contribute to their producing very large heads. As 
the flower heads appear, the larger leaves should be broken 
down over them, to defend them from the sun and rain, in 
>rder that the heads or pulps maybe close, and of their nat- 
ural colour. 
Plants from the autumn sowing are generally allowed to 
succeed best; but good Cauliflowers are sometimes produced 
from seed sown in a hot-bed toward the end of January, or 
early in February Great pains must be taken to have the 
bed in good condition to receive the seed ; when the plants 
are up, they must have air every mild day, and as they pro- 
* Many persons are apt to forget, that the successful cultivation of Cau- 
liflower depends on the particular seasons in which the plants are raised 
and set out ; and, consequently, instead of raising their own plants in the 
right seasons, apply for them at the seed-stores and gardens, in May and 
June. Now, it should be recollected, that if early Cauliflower do not ar- 
rive at, or near perfection, by the end of June, the plants get stunted by 
the heat, and seldom yield any thing but leaves, except the summer should 
prove mild, in which case, some of the early plants may flower in autumn 
but it is needless to risk the setting out of early Cauliflower plants later 
than April for the sake of such chance, because plants raised from seed 
sown about the middle of May, and transplanted in July, are by far tha 
most likely to produce good fall Cauliflower 
