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White Sugar, Skin and flesh white; leaves pale green ; 

 long irregular thick root, growing much out of ground. 



Yellow Sugar, Same as the preceding, except as to 

 color. 



Red Mangel-wurzel, Skin, flesh, and leaves pale red ; 

 long, moderately even in form, quite thick at the root, and 

 grows much above ground. 



Yellow Mangel-wurzel, Same as the above except as 

 to color, and generally more irregularly formed. 



BROCCOLI. 



So closely allied to cauliflower that I prefer to pass it by, 

 and merely make mention here of the leading varieties 

 namely : White Cape, Purple Cape, and Early Walcheren. 

 Culture the same as cauliflower. 



CABBAGES. 



This with market-gardeners is an important crop, and 

 with those about New York, the principal one, ns by their 

 method of culture they bring the crop very early into 

 market, thus commanding good prices, and land is cleared 

 off in time to admit of a second crop the same season. 

 The better to be understood by my readers, and to do 

 greater justice to the subject, I will divide it into two 

 parts. 



EAELY CABBAGES. 



Soil and Preparation, The soil best adapted for early 

 cabbages is a good, strong, retentive loam, and that with 

 a fair proportion of sand can be used to good advantage, 

 provided the subsoil is not too gravelly or porous ; still it 

 is not advisable to use very light soil, nor yet that which 

 is very heavy or clayey, and which has a tendency to pack 

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