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Knight's Protecting. A very useful protecting variety. 



Sulphur. Very useful, extremely hardy, and produces fine 

 heads. 



Champion (Barr). A very distinct, hardy early Broccoli. The 

 flower is well protected, and, with good culture, if allowed to attain 

 its full size, produces very large heads. 



Criterion (Barr). The best of all the late Broccolis, coming 

 into use after the middle of May, and giving a succession till the 

 Cauliflowers are ready to cut. 



Chappel's Cream. A fine variety, with large creamy white 

 compact head. 



Lauder's Protecting Late White Goshen. A fine, hardy late 

 variety. 



Leamington (Perkins). A well-protected, first-rate late 

 Broccoli. 



Ledsham's Latest of All. Certificated by the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society as one of the finest and latest varieties known ; 

 head " white as snow." 



Cattell's Eclipse. A handsome late form of the Mammoth 

 Broccoli. 



Grange's Early Cauliflower Broccoli, or Bath White. An 

 extremely early kind, which begins to come in in October. 



Cooling's Matchless. A rather leafy kind, but producing a 

 fine white head, like the White Roscoff. 



Snow's Superb White Winter. A compact, short-stemmed 

 variety, which may be grown to come in either a.t the end of 

 autumn or in spring. 



Veitch's Protecting. A good hardy kind, the fine white 

 heads of which are naturally protected by the peculiar growth of 

 the leaves. 



Wilcove's. A good late variety, which withstands the winter 

 well. 



The Italians cultivate a great many varieties of Broccoli, and 

 Italy is the country in which this vegetable originated ; but as 

 Cauliflowers of every kind pass the winter there without injury, they 

 give the name of Cauliflower to all the varieties which produce 

 white heads, the name Broccoli being restricted to the sprouting or 

 coloured varieties. The Giant Cauliflower of Naples is called a 

 Broccoli in its native country. On all the coasts of the Mediter- 

 ranean there are varieties of Cauliflower which come in all through 

 the winter, in uninterrupted succession to the autumn kinds. There 

 are also, among the purplish coloured Broccolis, particular kinds 

 for every month of the winter ; those which come in in November 

 are named San-Martinari, in December Nataleschi, and the rest 

 Gennajuoli, Febbrajuoli, Marzuoli, and Apriloti, according as they 

 come in in January, February, March, and April. 



