VEGETABLES 



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twelve inches apart, and, when about six weeks' 

 growth, thinned out to eight or nine inches apart. 



To gather the seed : After the flowering is over 

 and the seed is perfectly ripe the stalks should be 

 gathered and dried thoroughly, when the seeds 

 can be rubbed out. Borage seeds will fly all over 

 the place, and often in the next year clumps of 

 borage will appear in different parts of the garden. 



Borage is principally cultivated for the flavour- 

 ing of claret and other cups. 



BORECOLE {see SCOTCH KALE) 



BROCCOLI 



This vegetable is said to have emanated from 

 Italy. There are now ten or twelve distinct kinds 

 of broccoli at least, but all have sprung from the 

 two kinds originally brought over — the purple and 

 the green. 



The soil should be very rich and the ground 

 deeply trenched and manured. 



The first sowing should be made early in March 

 in a gentle heat, and if there be space, other sow- 

 ings about once a fortnight, beginning the second 

 week in April. The seedlings should be trans- 

 planted thickly at distances of about five inches 

 apart as soon as they become large enough. They 

 must be transplanted into drill rows at distances of 

 three feet apart, and a similar distance allowed 

 between each plant in the row. 



They require good waterings during all dry 

 weather. Frost is a great enemy to this vegetable, 

 and, if severe, will injure it before any usable hearts 



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