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prove very hurtful to thefe plants, if expofed thereto, 
efpecially after having been nurfed up under glades. 
After you have finifhed your beds,, you may fet your 
glalfes over your plants again, obferving to raife your 
props pretty high, efpecially if the weather be mild, that 
they may have tree air to Arengthen them; and in mild 
foft weather fet off your glaffes, as alfa in gentle (Sowers 
of rain ; and now you mult begin to harden them by de¬ 
grees to endure the open air : however, it is advifeable t© 
let your glades remain over them as long as poffible, if 
the nights fhonld be frolly, which will greatly forward 
your plants: but be fure do not let your glades remain 
upon them in very hot fun-lhine, efpecially if their leaves 
prefs againd the fides of the glaffes ; for it has been often 
obferved, that the moiffure which has rifen from the 
ground, and the perfpiration of the plants, which, by the 
glaffes remaining over them, has been detained upon the 
leaves, and, when the fun has fhone hot upon tlie fides of 
the glaffes, has acquired a powerful heat, have fealded all 
their larger leaves, to the no fmall prejudice of the plants; 
nay, fometimes we have feen large quantities of plants fo 
affected therewith, as never to be worth any thing after. 
If your plants have fucceeded well, towards the end of 
April fome of them will begin to produce ; you mud there¬ 
fore look over them carefully every other day, and when 
you fee a white (talk, which is commonly called the flower, 
plainly appear, you mud break down fome of the inner 
leaves over it to guard it from the fun, which would make 
it yellow and unlightly if expofed thereto; and, when you 
find it at its full bignefs, (which you may know by itsout- 
fide parting, as if it would run,) yon mud then draw the 
plant out of the ground, and not cut it off, leaving the 
ftalk in the ground, as is by fome praCtifed ; and, if they 
are defigned 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 bed time for pulling them is in a morning, before the 
fun has exhaled the moidure ; for cauliflowers, pulled in 
the heat of the day, lofe that firmnefs which they natu¬ 
rally have, and become tough. 
But to return to our fecond crop, (the plants being 
raifed and managed as was diredted for the early crop, 
until the end of October;) you mud then prepare fome 
beds, either to be covered with glafs frames, or arched 
over with hoops, to be covered with mats, &c. Thefe 
beds fliould have fome dung laid at the bottom, about dx 
incites or a foot thick, according to the dze of your plants; 
for, if they are fmall, the bed fhould be thicker of dung, 
to bring them forward, and vice vnja. This dung fhould 
be beat down dole with a fork, in order to prevent the 
worms from finding their way through it ; then lay fome 
good frefh earth about four or five inches thick thereon, 
in which you dtould fet 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 ciofe, .for the warmth of the dung will qccafion 
a- great damp in the bed, which, if pent in, will injure the 
plants. When your plants have, taken root, you mud 
give them as much free open air as poflible, by keeping 
the glalfes off in the day-time as much as the weather will 
permit; and in the night, or at Inch' times as the glalfes 
require to be kept on, raile them up with bricks or other 
props to let'in fredt air, unlefs in frody weather ; at which 
time the glades fhould be covered with mats, draw, and 
peafe-haulm, &c. but this is not to be done except in very 
■hard frofls: you mud alfo obferve to guard them again!] 
great rain, which in winter time is very hurtful to them; 
but in mild weather, if the glalfes are kept on, they fhould 
be propped to admit frefh air; and, if the under leaves 
grow yellow and decay, be lure to pick them off; for, if 
the weather fhould prove very bad in winter, fo that you 
fhould be obliged to keep them elofe covered for two or 
three days together, as it fometjmes happens, thefe decayed 
leaves will Vender the inclofed air very noxious j and the 
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plants, perfpiring pretty much at that time, are often de« 
droyed in vad quantities. 
In the beginning of February, if the weather proves 
mild, you mud begin to harden your plants by degrees, 
that they may be prepared for tranfplantation ; and the 
ground where you intend to plant your cauliflowers out 
to remain (which fhould be quite open from trees, &c. 
and rather moift than dry), having been well dunged and 
dug, fliould be fown with radifhes a week or fortnight be¬ 
fore you intend to plant out your cauliflowers: the reafon 
why we mention the flowing of radilhes particularly, is 
this, viz. that if there are not fome radifhes amongft them, 
and the month of May fliould prove hot and dry, as it 
fometimes happens, the fly will feize your cauliflowers, 
and eat their leaves full of holes, to their prejudice, and 
fometimes to their definition ; whereas, if there are ra¬ 
dilhes 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 fpinach 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 cauliflowers, 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 didance which is generally al¬ 
lowed by the gardeners near London, (who plant other 
crops between their cauliflowers to fucceed them, as cu¬ 
cumbers for pickling, and winter cabbages,) is every other 
row four feet and a half apart, and the intermediate row s 
two feet and a half, and two feet two inches didance in 
the rods ; fo that, in the latter end of May or beginning 
of June, when the radifltes and fpinach are cleared off, 
they put in feeds of cucumbers for pickling, in the mid¬ 
dle of the wide rows, at three feet and a half apart; and, 
in the narrow rows, plant cabbages for winter ufe, at tw o 
feet two inches didance, fo that thefe fland each of them 
exactly in the middle of the fquare between four cauli¬ 
flower-plants; and thefe, after the cauliflowers are gone 
off, will have full room to grow, and the crop be hereby 
continued in a fucceflion through the whole feafon. 
About three weeks or a month after your cauliflowers 
are planted out, the radilhes between them will be fit 
to hoe ; at which time, when you are hoeing out the ra~ 
diflres where they are too thick, you fliould cut oft all 
fuch as grow immediately about the cauliflowers, and 
would prove hurtful to them, by drawing them up tail 
and weak; and alfo at that time draw the earth up to the 
flems of the plants, being careful not to let any get into 
their hearts, as was before diredted ; and, when your ra¬ 
dilhes are fit to pull, be fine to clear round the cauliflow¬ 
ers firfl, and keep drawing the earth up to their Items as 
they advance in height, which will keep their denis from 
being hardened by the weather, and be of Angular fervice 
to your plants. 
There are many people who are very fond of watering 
cauliflower-plants in fummer, but the gardeners near Lon¬ 
don havealmod wholly laid adde this practice, as finding 
a deal of trouble and charge to little purpofe ; for, ll the 
ground be fo very dry as not to produce tolerable good 
cauliflowers without water, it feldom happens, that wa¬ 
tering them renders them much better ;, and when once 
they have been watered, if it is not condantly 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 Laid them: fo that, upon the whole, if 
care be taken to keep the earth drawn up to their denis, 
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 driCtly obferved. When your cauli¬ 
flowers begin to ihow, you mud often look over them, to 
turn down their leaves, as was before directed, to preferve 
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