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Imperial Sugar, like all other sugar beet varieties, does 

 not yield quite as handsomely as the mangels, but makes up in 

 richness what it lacks in yield. Especially profitable for cows. 



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Pit for Wintering Potatoes, Root Crops, etc. 



BORECOLE (See Kale). 



BORAGE. 



B or ago Officinalis. German, Borretsch ; French, Bourrache ; 

 Spanish, Boraja. This annual, which is of free-flowering habit 

 and grows to a .height of a foot or 18 inches, is rarely found in 

 American gardens. It can be grown as easily as a weed, by 

 sowing the seed in any corner or waste place in spring or 

 summer. Some uses, not known to me, are made of it in 

 cookery, and also in medical science. 



BROCCOLI. 



Brassica Oleracea (Botrytis). German, Spargel Kohl; 

 French, Chou-fleur d'Hiver; Spanish, Broculi. In broccoli we 

 have little more than a cauliflower under another name. It thrives 

 under the same conditions of culture, namely, 

 moist, fertile soil and cool atmosphere, and is 

 always grown for fall and winter use. Seed is 

 sown in seed bed in May, or later further 

 south ; and plants may be set in July (August 

 or September in southern latitudes) in well- 

 ^^ manured and well-prepared soil, 2^4 to 3 feet 

 by \y 2 feet apart. Cultivate and hoe fre- 

 quently. Heat and drought are the great 

 enemies of the crop, and often prove fatal. A good crop, like 

 that of the cauliflower, however, hardly ever fails to be very 

 profitable, 



