48 BROCCOLI. 



BROCCOLI. 

 CHOU BROCOLI, Brassica oleracea Italica. 



VARIETIES. 



Early White. 

 Early Dwarf Purple. 

 Early Green. 

 Dwarf Brown. 

 Large Late Purple. 



Large Purple Cape. 

 White Cape, or Cauliflower. 

 Sulphur-coloured Cape. 

 Branching Purple. 

 Large Late Green. 



THE several varieties of Broccoli and Cauliflower may be 

 justly ranked among the greatest luxuries of the garden. 

 They need only be known in order to be esteemed. The 

 Broccoli produces heads, consisting of a lump of rich, seedy 

 pulp like the Cauliflower, only that some are of a green 

 colour, some purple, some brown, &c., and the white kinds 

 so exactly resemble the true Cauliflower, as to be scarcely 

 distinguishable, either in colour or taste. 



Broccoli is quite plentiful throughout England the greater 

 part of the year, and it is raised with as little trouble as 

 Cabbages are here. The mode of raising the purple Cape 

 Broccoli is now generally understood in this part of America ; 

 but the cultivation of the other kinds has been nearly aban- 

 doned, on account of the ill success attending former attempts 

 to bring them to perfection. 



In some of the Southern States, where the winters are not 

 more severe than in England, they will stand in the open 

 ground, and continue to produce their fine heads from No- 

 vember to April. In the Eastern, Western, and Middle 

 States, if the seed of the late kinds be sown in April, and 

 the earlier kinds in May, in the open ground, and treated 

 in the same manner as Cauliflower, it would be the most 

 certain method of obtaining large and early flowers ; but as 

 only a part of these crops can be expected to come to per- 

 fection before the approach of winter, the remainder will 

 have to be taken up, laid in by the roots, and covered up 

 with earth to the lower leaves, in some sheltered situation, 

 to promote the finishing of their growth. 



