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GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



flavor, though the white is the most pleasant looking 

 vegetable when cooked. 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS, (Brassica okracea var.) 



This vegetable, as the engraving shows, is a variety of 

 the cabbage which forms scarcely any terminal bud or 

 head, but the buds along the stem, which in the ordi- 



Fig. 72. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 



nary cabbage remain small, are in this developed into 

 small heads, which are the edible portion. This is much 

 more used in Europe than with us ; though it is not suffi- 

 ciently hardy to endure our northern winters, it will 

 stand in our latitude until Christmas. Its cultivation 

 is exactly similar in all respects to that of Broccoli, ex- 



