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from over-much wet and sun, and, with the exception of being 

 regularly watered, left almost to themselves. Thus all the 

 earthing-up and constant attention which takes up so much of 

 the malee's time may be saved, and the risk of damping-off 

 avoided as well. Moreover, the cramping of the roots in pots 

 during the earlier period of their growth has been attended, as 

 I have thought, with the usual beneficial effect of inducing the 

 plants more readily to form heads of bloom ; and this, as regards 

 plants raised from imported seed, is a point of the greatest 

 consequence. 



SPROUTING-BROCCOLI. 



A variety which, instead of forming one large single head, 

 produces numerous small ones on the axils of the leaves. Its 

 principal merit in Europe consists in its supplying an excellent 

 dish at a period of the year when no other variety of Broccoli or 

 Cauliflower is to be had. It is, however, an inferior vegetable, 

 and possesses no particular merit to recommend its cultivation 

 in this country. 



I have made attempts to cultivate it in my garden at Chin- 

 surah, but with no success; nor have I seen at the Calcutta 

 vegetable-shows any specimens but what were uniformly most 

 unsatisfactory. 



BROCCOLI. 



Of this vegetable there are several varieties mentioned in the 

 English seedsmen's lists. Broccoli, however, is itself only a 

 description of Cauliflower, or more properly, perhaps, a name 

 given to a group of Cauliflowers which are able to sustain a 

 severer degree of cold. A distinction, therefore, between Broccoli 

 and Cauliflower is hardly to be recognised in this country, where 

 the cultivation of both vegetables must be in every respect 

 essentially the same, and carried on at precisely the same season. 



KNOL-KOHL KOHL-RABI. TURNIP-ROOTED CABBAGE. 



There are two varieties of this vegetable, the purple and the 

 green, very much the same in point of merit. The best seed is 

 obtained from the Cape of Good Hope. 



For the manner of cultivation the same directions apply in 

 every respect as for the Cabbage, except that the plants, not 



