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vegetate freely, observe the directions leaves are exposed. This is done about 



for sowing Broccoli. About the latter the middle of October. When cold 



part of October, remove them to a spot weather approaches, they give a slight 



of ground previously prepared in which covering of straw, brush, or corn-stalks', 



they are to be preserved during the en- spread from ridge to ridge. Should the 



suing winter. Such situations should winter prove mild the plants will suc- 



be protected from northerly winds, and ceed very well, and come into head be 



lav exposed to the south. The best way 

 13 to set a frame, provided with a shut- 

 ter, in which plant them with a dibble, 

 allowing each plant an inch square. In 

 this situation suffer them to remain 



fore those planted in the spring. The 

 covering is removed the laiter end of 

 March or beginning of April, and the 

 ridges gradually cut down to a level 

 by the culture of the crop — deep tillage 



without cover, until the middle or close is essential to success with this vege- 

 of November, according as the season 

 may be mild or otherwise. Have the 

 shutter at hand to use on any sudden 

 cold; it may be slid on at night, and re- 



table. 



" Having neglected to sow in Septem- 

 ber, or from any accident having failed 

 to get the plants at that time, prepare a 



moved in day time, either entirely or hot-bed in February, and therein sow 



partially, as the weather may require the seed, by itself, or mixed with celery, 



throughout the winter; air them freely radishes, or lettuce, 

 in clear weather when not too cold, ^'Landreth^s Large York. — This is a 



and examine them from time to time, to variety that originated at Philadelphia, 



guard against the depredations of mice It is not what gardeners term a pure 



which sometimes harbour in the frames, kind; that is, the heads differ some- 



As early in the latter part of March or what in form; but it is one of the finest 



beginning of April, as the weather will varieties we are acquainted with. When 



permit, and the ground admit of being planted at the same time with the Early 



worked, set them out in a compartment York, it immediately succeeds it. For 



of the garden protected from northerly 

 blasts. The ground should be deeply 

 dug and manured very highly with well 

 rotted stable dung; the richer the earth 



the market it is a profitable kind, the 

 heads being large, firm, and heavy. It 

 differs from what is known in England 

 as the " Large Early York," that being 



is, the more luxuriant will be the growth , termed here the Early York. Mode of 



and earlier the crop. 



cultivation same as that of the Early 



" Should the fly attack them, give fre- York, 



quent sprinklings of wood-ashes and '■^Early Sugarloaf — has a conical 



air-slaked lime, previously watering formed head, hence its name. It never 



the plants that it may adhere; or if becomes firm and hard, and is princi- 



practicable sprinkle with a solution of pally used for boiling; is esteemed a 



soap. If any run to seed remove them, delicate variety ; ripens with the Large 



and supply their place with fresh plants. York; is but little cultivated around 



It is scarcely necessary to add, that fre- Philadelphia. Treatment same as for 



quent deep hoeing should be given, to the York. 



destroy weeds and loosen the earth, 

 that it may receive the dews; when 

 they have attained a sufficient size earth I 



Early Batiersea — is in high repute in 

 England as a second early variety. 

 '^Philadelphia — a variety which origin- 



them up, that they may the more effect- 1 ated near the city of its name. It suc- 



ually withstand drought. 



"The market gardeners around Phila- 

 delphia, plant out considerable quanti- 



ceeds the Large York ; produces a firm 

 compact head, of large size, and is a 

 profitable kind for market : the whole 



ties of Early York in the autumn, to crop not ripening at once, but heading 



stand over winter; their plan is to successively; it withstands the heat well, 



prepare a piece of ground with a and with Landreth's Large York forms 



southern aspect; throw up ridges of a the main early summer crops of exten- 



foot high, two and a half feet apart, run- sive gardeners who supply the Philadel- 



ning from N. W. to S. E., about half phia market. 



way up the side of the ridge, and on ''Large Drumhead — Flat Dutch — 



the southerly side they place the plants. Large Bergen — Drumhead Savoy — 



putting them in the ground so deeply Curled Savoy — These are all calculated 



that nothing but the heart and upper for the winter supply. The first three 



