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of sufficient strength for planting in the quarters where intended 

 to produce their flowers or heads. 



The early purple broccoli, if sown early in this month and plant- 

 ed as you do cabbage, in good rich ground, will produce tine heads 

 in October or November, very little inferior to cauliflowers, and by 

 many preferred to them; the white will not flower so early, and in 

 the middle and eastern states must be taken up in November and 

 managed as directed in that month, by which a supply of this very 

 delicious vegetable may be had in great perfection during all the 

 winter and spring. 



In such of the southern states as their winters are not more 

 severe than in England, they will stand in the open ground, and 

 continue to produce their fine flowers from October to April. In 

 the middle, and especially in the eastern states, if the seeds are 

 sown early in March on a hot-bed, and forwarded as is done with 

 cauliflowers and early cabbage plants, and planted out finally in 

 April, it would be the most certain method of obtaining large and 

 early flowers. All these kinds produce heads exactly like the 

 cauliflower, only that some are of a purple colour, some green, 

 some black, and the white kind so exactly resembles the true cau- 

 liflower, as to be scarcely distinguished therefrom, either in colour 

 or taste. 



If any plants were raised in the preceding months, let some of 

 them be pricked out now into nursery beds, to get strength for 

 planting out finally. 



Peas. 



Continue to sow successional crops of peas every ten or twelve 

 days, as directed in pages 133 and 135, to which 1 refer you for 

 instructions. 



You may now sow the dwarf-sugar and the dwarf Spanish-peas; 

 they are both plentiful bearers, and do not require to be rodded, as 

 they never rise more than from twelve to eighteen inches high. 

 They are to be sown in drills two feet asunder, very thin, and 

 covered about two inches deep. 



Leadman's dwarf pea is, perhaps, the most prolific and profitable 

 of the whole family, it bears most abundantly, and is very delicious; 

 it rises to the height of from two and a half to three feet, accord- 

 ing to the soil, and may, or may not be rodded, but if having some 

 support, the produce will be the greater. 



The tall crooked sugar pea is particularly worthy of cultivation, 

 and should now be sown; its green pods, when young, are boiled 

 like kidney -beans, and are uncommonly sweet and delicious; these 

 grow to a considerable height, and require rods from seven to eight 

 feet high, and to be sown in drills at least four feet asunder. 



If you sowed no peas in the preceding months, the early frame, 

 early golden, and t'harleton hotspur kinds should now be sown 

 for first crops; and for succession, the glory of England, Spanish 

 morotto, white, green, and grey rouneivals; or the tall marrowfat, 

 imperial, sugar-poland and blue Prussian kinds. The nine last 



