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CULTURE OF THE CAULIFLOWER. 
Another, and a still better plan, is to take them up in fine weather, 
with good bails, and plant them in good light rich soil in a back shed, 
mushroom shed, or any other convenient place of the kind; and if 
kept free from dead leaves, they will soon form their heads in that 
situation, and be very good for table. 
But the best method we have met with, where there is the con- 
veniency, is to plant them in a brick pit, when severe weather comes 
on, and by removing the glasses in fine weather, and preserving them 
from foul, we have cut very fine heads, as good as could be grown out 
of doors, until the middle of February, when the winter was very 
severe. 
Final Culture of the Third Sowing —About the middle of April, 
take up those plants with good balls, that have stood the winter under 
walls and in frames, and plant them in the situations appointed for 
them to form heads. 
Take up all, except three or four of those remaining under hand 
glasses, and supply all deficiences, about the end of March. Draw a 
little earth round the stem of each, give them plenty of air, by prop¬ 
ping up the glass on the south side, and as the plants advance in 
growth, raise the glasses all round by means of bricks, and finally, 
about the beginning of May, remove the glasses altogether. 
The crops will, therefore, come into use as follows 
1. Autumn sowing for preserving through the winter. 
a. Those potted, and preserved in frames, and finally planted un¬ 
der hand-glasses, at the end of March, will produce heads early in 
May. 
b. Those growing under hand-glasses, either planted from the 
frames at the end of March, or having stood there all the winter, will 
produce heads by the end of May. 
c. Those removed from the frames in April, to the open quarters 
in the garden, will produce by the middle of June. 
d. Those sheltered under walls, and planted in open quarters in 
April, will produce by the end of June. 
2. Those sown on a hotbed, in February, and planted out finally 
in May, will produce heads by "the end of July or beginning of Au¬ 
gust. 
3. Those sown on a warm border, in March, and finally planted 
out in May, will produce by the middle of August, or towards the 
beginning of September. 
4. Those sown in May, and finally planted out in July will begin 
to produce in October, and continue through the winter: 
Insects and Diseases .—Whilst young, they are often destroyed by 
