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of air, and prevents the plants from being drawn up. 

 The white cauliflower, and purple sprouting brocoli 

 are generally the first sown, in order to obtain an 

 earlier autumn production, in the beginning of 

 September and October. 



The cape is sown about the latter end of May, 

 and will produce heads early in the autumn ; a suc- 

 cession may be continued in nearly all the sorts by 

 a second and third planting from such as remain in 

 the seed beds. 



If the large late purple is sown about the end of 

 March, fine heads may be expected about that time 

 twelvemonth. The proper time for sowing the 

 Portsmouth brocoli is the second week in April ; and 

 should the plants come up too thick, they may be 

 hoed with a tworinch hoe, or thinned out with the 

 hand. 



The Tartarian variety should be sown between 

 the 1st and 10th of April ; they will then produce 

 their milk white heads about the end of May and 

 beginning of June. 



The seed of the different varieties of brocoli 

 should be sown in an open exposure, where the 

 plants grow much stronger than on narrow borders 

 under walls. Each sort must be sown separately, 

 moderately thick on the surface, and raked in 

 slightly ; if the weather at the time of sowing is very 

 dry, water the bed occasionally with a rose watering 

 pot, until the seeds appear, which will be in about 

 ten days or a fortnight. The time of finally trans- 

 planting them is June, July, and August, and the be- 

 ginning of September, according to the time they were 

 sown, or are desired for use. The plants delight in 



