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Class III., letter G. 1st prize to W. Cant, Esq., Mile End Lodge, Colchester 

 — Boula de Nanteuil, Madame Schmidt, Prince Imperial, Caroline de Sansal, 

 Jules Margottin, Madame Knorr, Paul Ricant, Charles Lawson, General 

 Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, Souvenir de Malmaison, Prince Leon, Etendard 

 des Amateurs, Souvenir d'uu Ami, William Jesse, Geant des Batailles, Kean, 

 Devoniensis, Eveque de Nimes, Pauline Lauzezeur, Lord Raglan, Solfaterre, 

 Coupe d' Hebe, General Jacqueminot ; 2nd prize to Mr. Thomas Mallett, 

 Nottingham; 3rd prize to Mr. Thomas Walker, Oxford. 



Class III., letter H. 1st prize to W. Cant, Esq., Mile End Lodge, Col- 

 chester—Jules Margottin, Madame Masson, Baronne Prevost, Comte de Nantueil, 

 Lord Raglan, Boula de Nanteuil, Solfaterre, Coupe d' Hebe, Devoniensis, 

 Charles Lawson, Kean, Souchet: 2nd prize to Mr. Thomas Walker, Oxford; 

 3rd prize to Mr. Thomas Mallet, Nottingham ; 4th prize to Mr. Thirland, Oxford. 



Class IV., letter I. Roses in pots. 1st prize to Messrs. Paul and Son, 

 Cheshunt ; 2nd prize to Mr. E. Francis, Hertford. 



BROCCOLI. 

 The following notes on this useful vegetable are taken from " Thomp- 

 son's Gardener's Assistant." My own experience of the few sorts I 

 grow shall be given in your next : — 



" Early Purple Cape. — This grows from a foot to eighteen inches 

 high. Leaves nearly entire, erect, waved ; veins and midrib stained 

 purple. Heads middle-sized, compact, purplish green, the whole 

 becoming green when boiled. Sow first and third week in May, for 

 use in September and October. A longer succession — namely, till 

 January — may be obtained, if required, from a sowing in the second 

 week in June. 



" Green Gape. — Leaves long, narrow, veins and mid-ribs green. 

 Head greenish, generally covered by the leaves ; comes into use in 

 October and November, from sowings in the middle of May, and in 

 December if sown in the second week in June. 



" Sprouting. — A strong-growing hardy sort, from two to three feet 

 high. Leaves spreading, much indented, of a purplish green. The 

 head is of a deep purple ; the first one close, others smaller sprout from 

 the axils of the upper leaves. If sown in April it produces heads or 

 sprouts fit for use in November. After the first head is cut out a 

 succession of sprouts is produced through the winter. Near London the 

 principal sowing is, however, made in the first or second week of May ; 

 but if the ground intended to be planted is not likely to be cleared of 

 the previous crop in time to receive the Broccoli plants sown in the 

 beginning of May, before they get too old in the bed, the sowing must 

 be deferred till the end of May or beginning of June ; and from these 

 late sowings, heads or flower sprouts will come in for use in April. 



" Green Close- Headed. — The plants are dwarf and hardy, leaves 

 large, waved, veins white. Heads middle-sized, growing exposed, of 

 a greenish colour. Sown in the third week of May, it produces a 

 succession of compact heads from November till the end of February. 



" Late Dwarf Purple . — Very dwarf and hardy. Leaves short, 

 dark green, deeply indented. Heads small, conical, deep purple, 

 becoming fit for use in May. Sow in the second or third week in May. 



" Danish or Late Green. — Leaves long, narrow, much undulated. 



