. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE CULTURE OF VEGETABLES. 467 root ; Jaims's Inter- mediate, New Inter- mediate, rather larger ; Long Surrey, a very deep - rooted variety ; and Altrincham. These long deep-rooting kinds are less grown than formerly, the New In- termediate displacing them. Cauliflowers. — As Broccolis are the hardy section, so are Cauli- flowers the tender group, of white-headed plants, and are, too, practically annuals, as all produce their iieads for culling in the same year as the seed is sown, and the early var
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE CULTURE OF VEGETABLES. 467 root ; Jaims's Inter- mediate, New Inter- mediate, rather larger ; Long Surrey, a very deep - rooted variety ; and Altrincham. These long deep-rooting kinds are less grown than formerly, the New In- termediate displacing them. Cauliflowers. — As Broccolis are the hardy section, so are Cauli- flowers the tender group, of white-headed plants, and are, too, practically annuals, as all produce their iieads for culling in the same year as the seed is sown, and the early varieties also bloom and seed in the year. The season of the Cauliflower is from the beginning of June until Christmas. A sowing made of such a dwarf variety as the Snowball, Early Erfurt, or Early Forcing, all much alike, in January or February in warmth, enables good stout plants to be secured lor planting out on to a warm border in April and producing heads in June. Even a forcing made in a cold house or frame in February gives plants that head in very little later. The seedling plants should be, when 3m. in height, lifted from the seed pans, and be dibbled out thinly into shallow boxes filled with leafy soil, and when strong enough to harden will transplant outdoors with good balls of soil and root, The^e dwarf varieties may be planted in rows 1 Sin. apart and but I2in. apart in the rows. A further sowing made of the same dwarf varieties, or of Early London, or King of C uiliflowers, in April, will give plants similarly treated to in during July and August, whilst a sowing of the Autumn Giant made on a warm bed in March will give plants to be put out in rows 30111. apart, and some will head in during September. One later sowing of seed will enable a yet later planting to be made, and if the winter be mild the season of fine white Cauliflower heads is continued even to the end of the year. As the winter approaches, it is wise to draw the leaves of plants that have begu
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