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frosts occur, under the impression that the low temperatiu-e has a 

 ripening effect upon the Cabbages, and colours and improves the 

 keeping of the pickle. The cultural details are the same as for 

 other Cabbages, and nothing fiu-ther need be said about them. 



Chou de Bukohley, or Cabbage Broccoli. — This hybrid, 

 raised by Mr. Gilbert, of Burghley Gardens, has now pretty well 

 satisfied the critics, and may be recommended as a first-rate winter 

 green, nearly as hardy as the Brussels Sprouts, and noticeable for its 

 extreme delicacy of tlavour. The seeds may be sown two or three 

 times during the spring from March till June, and planted out at 

 intervals as vacancies occur, with the same space and treatment as 

 is usually given to Cabbages. Chou de Burghley forms medium- 

 sized hearts, like a sugar-loaf Cabbage, which may be cut and 

 used in that condition, or left till later in the season, when a small 

 white Broccoli has developed in the interior of the heart. 



The Savoy. — Everybody is familiar with the handsome 

 crumple-lcaved Cabbages which are so hardy and useful in autumn 

 and winter. The seeds for the autumn sujDply should be sown 

 about the end of JMarch, and the young plants transplanted as soon 

 as large enough. A further sowing shoidd be made about the end 

 of April. By planting the earliest and strongest plants out first, 

 and leaving the smaller ones to stand longer, a successional 

 character may be obtained from one sowing. If the small plants 

 which are left to the last are dibljled in any vacant plot, 9 inches 

 apart, very nice little hearts will be secured, and thus any waste 

 can be avoided. I have seen many nice dishes of delicate little 

 hearts cut from what appeared to be the refuse of the seedbed. 

 Where bidk of crop is required the Dnmihead is the kind chosen, 

 but these large-hearted Cabbages have fallen into disrepute since 

 the race of small-hearted delicately -flavom-ed varieties, such as Tom 

 Thumb and King Coffee, were introduced. It is found that the 

 small varieties may be planted so much closer together that the 

 loss even in bulk of crop is not, after all, so veiy great. The 

 Drumhead wUl requu-e as much space as the Enfield Market Cab- 

 bage — 2 feet between the rows — and the plants should stand 18 

 inches apart in the rows. The small kinds, such as Tom Thumb, 

 do not require more than half that space. 



CHAPTER X 



The Broccoli. — In the winter and spring the Broccoli occupies 

 the place filled by the Cauliflower in summer and autumn. Both, 

 from climatical conditions, sometimes fail wholly or partially; 



