114 THE CAULIFLOWER. 



the flavor of that vegetable. A full account of 

 these crosses may be found in the Revue Horticole 

 for 1880. 



The following remarks, by Mr. A. Dean, of Eng- 

 land, on a case of apparent crossing in the cabbage 

 tribe will be read with interest: 



" A very pretty conical -headed plant of a Cole- 

 wort was allowed to run to seed, but nothing else 

 of the same family was known to be in flower for a 

 distance of at least several hundred yards. The 

 produce was saved and sown, and has been furnish- 

 ing food for the table during the past winter, but 

 what a progeny! Some were reproductions of the 

 seed parent, but larger, and proved very handsome 

 early cabbages; others were very fair Coleworts; 

 others bad examples of Cottager's Purple Kale, 

 others Green Kale, while others resembled sprout- 

 ing Broccoli, both green and purple. One plant 

 was an example of the once popular Dalmany 

 sprouts, and there were many other plants that 

 admitted of no classification. It is probable that 

 bees, which travel long distances, had somewhere 

 found some sprouting in Broccoli flower and had 

 brought pollen from those to the Colewort plant in 

 question." 



Spontaneous variation has given a number of 

 curious forms of cauliflower, including one with 

 several heads in the place of one, and another in 



