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smart frost, make most delicious greens, and boil greener than any 

 other of the cabbage kind ; it bears a very severe winter, and affords 

 a grateful supply when most other plants perish. 



Both these kinds are cultivated in the same manner as cabbages ; 

 their seeds may now be sown ; but let it be observed, that they stand 

 the winter frosts better when planted in a gravelly soil than in any 

 other. 



BROCCOLI. 



There are several varieties of the broccoli, which are all but late 

 heading varieties of the cauliflower, such as the Purple Cape, the 

 Walcheren and white Cape, the green and black broccoli, with some 

 others ; but the purple and white Cape are in most estimation. The 

 seeds should be sown in the early part of this month, if not before, 

 and afterwards, when of due size, pricked out in beds at the distance 

 of four inches apart and watered, there to remain till arrived of suf- 

 ficient strength for planting in the quarters where intended to pro- 

 duce their flowers or heads. 



The early purple broccoli, if sown early in this month and planted 

 as you do cabbage, in good rich ground, will produce fine heads in 

 October or November, very little inferior to cauliflowers, and by 

 many preferred to them ; the white will not flower so early, and in 

 the middle and eastern States must be taken up in November and 

 managed as directed in that month, by which a supply of this very 

 .delicious vegetable may be had in great perfection during all the 

 winter and spring. 



In such of the southern States as their winters are not more severe 

 than in England, they will stand in the open ground, and continue 

 to produce their fine flowers from October to April. In the middle, 

 and especially in the eastern States, if the seeds are sown early in 

 March on a hot-bed, and forwarded as is done with cauliflowers and 

 early cabbage plants, and planted out finally in April, it would be 

 the most certain method of obtaining large and early flowers. All 

 these kinds produce heads exactly like the cauliflower, only that some 

 are of a purple color, some green, some black, and the white kind so 

 exactly resembles the true cauliflower, as to be scarcely distinguished 

 therefrom, either in color or taste. 



If any plants were raised in the preceding months, let some of 

 them be pricked out now into nursery beds, to get strength for plant- 

 ing out finally. 



PEAS. 



Continue to sow successional crops of peas every ten or twelve 

 days, as directed in pages 140 and 194, to which I refer you for in- 

 structions. 



You may now sow the dwarf-sugar and the dwarf Spanish-peas; 

 they are both plentiful bearers, and do not require to be rodded, as 

 they never rise more than from twelve to eighteen inches high. 

 They are to be sown in drills two feet asunder, very thin, and covered 

 about two inches deep. 



