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here and there, one that never headed further than cabbaging, 

 showing at once what broccoli originated in. It is also plain 

 that the Brussels sprouts originated in the Savoy ; and I am not 

 sure that it will not prove that the turnip originated in the 

 cabbage, or the cabbage in the turnip : one thing I am certain 

 of, that the cabbage is to be found with both tuberous roots and 

 bulbous roots; and the Swede turnip is to be found fibrous- 

 rooted like the cabbage, or more in the way of rape. All these 

 observations I have often made, and I mean to watch them still 

 more closely. 



I make it a rule to have two sowings always of the Winter 

 Broccoli, the first about the middle of April, and the second 

 about the middle of May. I prick the plants early, get them 

 strong, and plant them between the crops of peas, one row on 

 each side of a row of peas, which shades them for a time, and as 

 the peas are pulled away from them, the ground is forked, &c. 

 They soon get strength, and grow away. 



I always take care to have all ground trenched well in 

 winter for Peas, and well manured, except for the first crop, 

 which I find comes in quicker by being sown on the ground 

 whilst it is rather poor. Stopping them just as they begin to 

 come into bloom causes them to set all together and quickly. I 

 take care to have the second crop to follow immediately. I 

 have grown almost every sort of peas that I ever heard of up to 

 the present time ; and I find that for the first crop there is no 

 kind better than the Waricick, which I sow at the bottom of 

 sloping banks the first week in December ; and find that by so 

 doing they are just ready to come through the ground about 

 Christmas, about the time frost sets in. If they make their 

 appearance above ground, and the frost does come, I take care 

 to cover them with dry dusty soil of any kind, which I always 

 have in readiness : it keeps them healthy, and free from canker 

 and shanking off. For succession I sow the Frame pea, and a 

 few Charlton; and for general summer crops the Scimitar Blue, 

 JS/eio Green Marroio, Milforcfs Marroic, which is a fine pea, and 

 KnigMs Tall Marrow, the best-flavoured and most useful of all 

 peas. All the last-mentioned sorts cannot have the ground too 

 well trenched, manured, and prepared ; particularly Knight's 

 tall marrow, which will not do on poor ground. I have had 

 them 16 ft. high, kept up with poles and ropes. Sow or plant 

 the seed 3 in. apart. They always grow up very weak, and 

 continue so for some time ; but as the season advances they 

 gain strength wonderfully, and branch out, if stopped when 2 ft. 

 high. If you take care to stop them again when about 4 or 5 

 feet high, and once or twice afterwards, according to their 

 strength, you will cause them to be from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in thick- 

 ness in the row. If they show bloom before I am likely to 



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