PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
AUGUST, 1835. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE CAULIFLOWER. 
In our last number we had occasion to make some remarks on the 
physical constitution of that variety of the cabbage called cauliflower ; 
and, as we then promised, now proceed to detail the ordinary modes of 
culture, together with some account of the means and manner of 
accelerating the growth and early production of this favourite vegeta¬ 
ble, as practised long ago by ourselves and others. This, in the estima¬ 
tion of many readers, will be considered of ten times more importance 
than any descant of abstract notions relative to the physiology of the 
plant. The one is certainly more immediately useful than the other; 
but both are necessary to the man who wishes to obtain a thorough 
insight into the nature of this, or any other object of his care. 
In taking up the pen with this view we cannot forget that we wrote 
five or six years ago, for the Gardener’s Magazine, a short paper on the 
same subject, which was published in that periodical, and thence 
into several other books ; so that what we are now about to advance 
cannot be called original matter. But, as it is probable many young 
readers of the Register may not have seen that paper, there can be 
no harm, on their account, to give a new version of it. Advice, if 
good, can hardly be too often repeated ; and practical rules, if of 
any use, cannot be too often inculcated. 
No practical man can be ignorant that the proper time for sowing 
cauliflower seed for the earliest spring crop is on, or about, the twenty- 
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