The Horticultural Register (Volume 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 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 vegetable, as practised long ago by ourselves and others. This, in the estimation 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 VOL. IV.--NO. L. F F fourth of August. It is, however, better to sow twice about that time; say on the twenty-first, and again on the twenty-eighth. If the seed be sown sooner than the twentieth, the plants are likely to ...