THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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Broap Brans.—These are not, as a rule, required in large 
quantities, and in few instances only will it be necessary to sow for 
very early or late supplies. One sort will suffice, and this should be 
Beck’s Green Gem, if the space is very limited, as it does not exceed 
twelve inches in height, and produces an immense crop in propor- 
tion to the space occupied. The produce is of excellent quality and 
colour. In medium-sized gardens’a taller sort may be sown, and 
the best is the Green Windsor, well known for productiveness and 
excellency of quality. Two sowings will suffice, the first to be made 
about the middle or end of February, and the second a month after- 
wards; the drills to be three feet apart, and the seeds to be three 
inches from each other in the drills; for unless the plants have 
plenty of room, there will not be much chance of a heavy crop. 
Bert.—There are about a dozen beets in the catalogue, but one 
is quite sufficient, and that one should be Wutting’s Duarf Red, a 
dwarf-growing sort, producing medium-sized roots of superb quality. 
Sow about the end of April in drills one inch in depth, and twenty 
inches apart; and when the plants are nicely up, thin to ten inches 
apart. 
BrussExs Sprouts. —This is the most delicate vegetable we have 
for winter use, and, when well grown, very profitable. The best 
stock is that known as Serymger’s Giant. Sow a pinch of seed in 
February, if there isa pit at work with cucumbers, or for propagat- 
ing purposes, and prick out the plants in a frame when large enough. 
These will be useful for the first supply. Make a main sowing on a 
sheltered border about the second week in March, and immediately 
they are large enough, plant in the quarters where they are to be 
grown. They cannot be put out too early. Two feet each way is 
a very good distance to plant them if the soil is in good heart, but 
in rather poor ground twenty inches will be quite far enough for 
them to be apart. Some of the smaller plants may be put out 
rather later in quarters from which early crops of potatoes have 
been taken, and for these eighteen by twenty inches will suffice. 
Broccori are not suitable for very small gardens, because of 
the liability of their being killed by severe frosts during the winter. 
The best time for sowing is, speaking generally, the first week in 
May, and the finest of the established varieties for succession are 
Walcheren, Grainger’s Autumn White, Sutton’s Superb, Leamington, 
Carter’s Champion, and Cattell’s Eclipse. They are here arranged in 
the order in which they will be ready for the table, the first in 
October, and the last-mentioned in April and May. They should be 
planted out when thoroughly strong, the rows to be thirty inches 
and the plants two feet apart. 
CavLirLowER.—To insure a gocd supply of these during the 
summer, sow the Walcheren in heat in February, and plant out when 
large enough, and sow out-of-doors in May and June, and for keep- 
ing in frames over the winter about the 20th of August; but in 
most gardens it will suffice to sow in May for autumn, and in August 
for early summer use; for if the weather is dry, and the soil not 
over rich, the other crops are seldom satisfactory, and there is an 
abundance of other good vegetables when they are ready. 
Junuery. 
