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II. Purple Beoccoli. 



F 



A. Autumn Purple. B. Winter Purple. 



C. Spring Purple. 



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I. White Broccoli. 

 A. Autumn White Broccoli, 



The earliest of the autumnal varieties are the Dwarf Erfurt, 

 Le Normand, and Walcheren. Properly speaking, these are uot 

 Broccoli, but Cauliflowers, and ought not to form any part of this 

 report ; but as they have now for some years been known among 

 seedsmen and gardeners as Broccoli, and as they were received as 

 such in the collection, they are introduced as the earliest of the 

 autumn sorts. 



Dwarf Erfurt 



Benary. 



The plant is dwarf, not above a foot high, and produces a large, 

 close, and compact head, six to nine inches across, which is of a 

 creamy colour. The leaves are short, winged, tapering abruptly 

 to the base, spreading and exposing the head. In use, 

 August 1st. 



Le Normand Vilmorin & Co. 



Plant about 15 inches high, with winged leaves, which are broad, 

 and taper abruptly towards the base ; they are toothed and waved 

 on the margin, exposing a head which is about 9 inches in 

 diameter, and of a creamy colour. This is earlier than Wal- 

 cheren, and is readily distinguished from it by the waved and 

 toothed margin of the foliage. In use August 8th. - 



Walcheren .... Veitch & Son. 



Covent Garden White . . . . Charlw^ood & Cummins. 



Selected Early Erjitrt . . Scott. 



Stadtholder . % . • . . Nutting & Son. 



Hammond's White . , , Turner. 



Late White Cape . . . . Turner. 



The plant Is from 18 inches to y feet high; leaves winged, taper- 

 ing abruptly towards the base, the inner ones turning with a 

 spiral twist over the flower heads, and protecting them from 

 the sun, enable them to preserve a clearer whiteness than 

 either of the former, which, from the spreading habit of the leaves 

 exposing the heads to the direct influence of the sun, are always 

 of a cream colour. 



