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sown in May and August to produce a late crop, 

 but the plants will be much smaller. 



The seeds can be sown thinly in a small bed of 

 dug ground in any part of the garden, and about 

 the middle of June, if the plants are four inches 

 high, they can be finally transplanted to an open 

 compartment, in rows two feet and a half apart, 

 and eighteen inches in the row ; the smaller kinds 

 can be planted at a less distance ; and they must be 

 watered occasionally, if the weather is dry, till they 

 have struck root. It is a good plan to prick out 

 some in another bed about four inches apart, espe- 

 cially if the plants come up very thick in the seed 

 bed ; as by this means they will become stronger and 

 better rooted for the final transplanting in May or 

 June. In their advancing growth, hoe the plants 

 once or twice to clear them of weeds and to draw 

 the earth about the bottom of the stems, by way of 

 encouraging their growth in the production of large 

 full heads in proper season. 



7. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. Var. BRASSICA. 



There is no particular or specific name for this 

 vegetable, but it is supposed to have originated from 

 the Savoy. 



Of this famed vegetable, there is but one variety, 

 which has been of late years in great repute in this 

 country. Near Brussels, arid other large towns in 

 Flanders, the Choux de Bruxelles, as they are there 

 called, are very extensively cultivated; and both 



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