60 POPULAR VEGETABLES 



more like the Cauliflowers, which need liberal supplies 

 of food. 



Autumn Broccoli. This type of Broccoli is very 

 popular, but not so good in flavour as the spring 

 and late varieties. It is unwise to get huge autumn 

 produce for a private garden. The Autumn or 

 Self-protecting are very valuable, and from seed sown 

 late in February or March, good heads result in Sep- 

 tember. Make the March sowing on good land, and 

 plant out in May or early June, in rows two feet 

 apart, with eighteen inches between the plants. Six 

 inches more room will be better each way on good 

 land. The same distance will suffice for Michaelmas 

 White, a superb variety of recent introduction, of 

 good "protecting qualities," and coming true to season. 

 When sown at the above dates the produce will be 

 ready at Michaelmas. The older Walcheren should 

 not be forgotten. Sown in March and May a suc- 

 cession will be provided to Christmas. 



Winter Broccoli. There are many varieties of 

 spring Broccoli, and all are uncertain at times, but 

 this is readily explained. During the autumn of 

 1901, for instance, the plants were making splendid 

 growth, but very early in the season from fifteen to 

 twenty degrees of frost occurred, which arrested 

 it. The early autumn varieties suffered less severely 

 than the early winter ones. Late planted Broccoli 

 do not make in some seasons much progress at the 

 start owing to heat and drought, with the result that 

 at the end of the summer growth becomes very luxu- 



