The Cauliflower

t quote the following, by the late Peter Henderson, of N

th, mixing through it a layer of three or four inches of strong well-rotted stable manure. The plants may be either those from seed sown last fall and wintered over in cold frames, or else started from seeds sown in January or February in a hot-bed or green-house, and planted in small pots or boxes, so as to make plants strong enough to be set out as soon as the soil is fit to work, which, in this latitude, is usually the first week in April. We are often applied to for cauliflower plants as late as May, but the chances of their forming heads when planted in May are slim indeed. The surest way to secure the heading of cauliflowers is to use what are called hand-glasses. These are usually made about two feet square, which gives room enough for three or four plants of cauliflower until

me, grown about one acre each year, which has certainly averaged $1,500. On one occasion the crop proved almost an entire failure, owing to unusual drought in May; while, on another occasion, with an unusually favorable season, it sold at nearly $3,000 per acre. The average price for all planted is a

itten nearly forty years ago, is true to-day, so far as the general profitableness

shed rapidly forward, as stated, by using protection if necessary, and by high manuring. It is an advantage to set the early plants between ridges, as is done with early cabbage. The ridges hold the sun and keep of

ful in the Northern United States as in England, and the failures to grow cauliflowers successfully in this country have often resulted from adhering to the methods employed in the

l worth studying, even if they can not be literally followed. The time for sowing the seed should be so gauged that the plants shall be neither too large nor too small dur

t deeply, as the stem is the part most easily injured by cold; the same rule of pla

it can be done, to wintering under frames, for plants so exposed will be most

. If pots are used, care must be taken not to have them too small, or to allow them to become

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d-bed, withholding water, poor soil, too much crowding. After the plants are set out, a cold rainy time or badly drained land may have the same effect; also a very hot time, if the soil is dry and the plants are not growing well. The check occasi

English journal from which I have already taken much valuable inform

s injurious as over-manuring; and the hard frost which we had here on the 1st of April seems to be sending all the exposed plants into butt

iter, Mr. G

s is the case in many parts of the country. I have for years noted that after a cold severe winter and a warm spring b

en nursed or protected too much during winter are more apt to button