MONSTROUS BROCCOLI. 



]\ru. CiiORLTON has given in the present number a hicid account of the mode 

 of cultivating the Cauliflower; while we were engaged in reading his article, the 



following came to 

 our table in an 

 English periodi- 

 cal: — 



"I beg to send 

 you a head of 

 Broccoli, which 

 may possibly be 

 worth attention. 

 I have been an 

 extensive grower 

 of that vegetable 

 for more than 20 

 years, and I have 

 never seen any- 

 thing like it be- 

 fore. To what 

 cause is its anoma- 

 lous condition to 

 be attributed ?" — 

 J. Clark. [Your 

 Broccoli is very 

 curious, from the 

 fact of six perfect 

 heads being grown 

 on one and the 

 same plant. The 

 cause of this rather 

 unusual formation 

 is probably owing 

 to some injury 



which the growing point of the main stem may have received at a late period of 

 the season ; the effect of such an accident would be the production of several 

 heads resembling the specimen you have been so good as to forward to us, and of 

 which the accompanying sketch, although very much reduced, will convey a better 

 idea than any lengthened description. — B.] 



FRUIT CULTURE. 



BY W. B. WALDO, JOHNSVILLE, DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: One year ago, a friend of mine presented me with one hundred 

 dwarf pear-trees from the Rochester Nurseries, and, although their roots were 

 unfeelingly lacerated by careless hands, they brought forth some fruit the first 

 year. The donation innoculated me with the dwarf tree fever ; each tree became 

 an acquaintance and a particular object of my care. This year, they have been 

 mostly barren, although they have made a fine growth of wood. As horticultural 

 science has become a little deity that perches, in these modern days, on every bush 



