8S Market Gardening. 



In cultivating the Improved Siberian variety — a 

 strain of the kind known as German Greens, or 

 " sprouts " — sow in September, in rows one foot 

 apart, and treat the same as spinach. This is a very 

 hardy kind, much grown by the New York gardeners. 



Broccoli {Brassica okracea Botryiis) is a variety of 

 cabbage very closely resembling the cauliflower. There 

 is scarcely any difference between 

 the two beyond what would nat- 

 urally be looked for between differ- 

 ent varieties. It is hardy, and sure 

 to head, but is inferior in flavor. 



/4fHiil))f3^**^^\ ■^^^ ^^^^ varieties of Broccoli re- 



M/i/tj^^^^.:^!^ quire a rich, deep soil ; and the 

 urpe ap rocco i. ground should bc trenched to a 

 depth of at least two feet, well incorporating, as the 

 work proceeds, abundance of rich manure. Where 

 the object is to obtain fine large heads, too much ma- 

 nure can hardly be used. 



The seed should be sown in hot-beds, for early crops, 

 in March or April ; for main crops, in the open ground 

 in May, in beds of well-pulverized rich soil, making 

 the surface flne, and then beating the seed gently into 

 the ground, and covering it with fine earth. 



One ounce will sow a bed of forty square feet, and 

 produce about 3,000 plants. When the plants are 

 sufficiently strong, and before they are drawn by growing 

 too closely together, transplant them into nursery beds 

 or lines, allowing about four inches between the plants. 

 This will insure strong, stocky plants, and will also 

 induce the formation of an extra quantity of roots. 



