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a very experienced cultivator (my respected friend Mr. Charles 

 Dowding), ten miles from London : whose supplies of this ar- 

 ticle, throughout the autumn, winter, and spring, were most 

 satisfactory. The seeds were furnished by Messrs. J. and A. 

 Henderson, of Pine- Apple Place, Edgware Road, London ; with 

 the exception of one sort, for which Mr. Dowding had no name, 

 and which he carefully preserved from contamination, by rearing 

 his supply of seed in a select spot, remote from the blossoms of 

 the whole jBrassica tribe. I have elsewhere heard of one exactly 

 tallying to my description of this kind of broccoli, which I take 

 to be the samej viz. Miller's broccoli (Miller of Bristol, I 

 presume). The full-grown plant is about the size of one's hat, 

 producing beautiful white heads, as large as two clenched fists, 

 in May; and even much later, when reared under the shade of 

 a north walk I should be glad to see this variety in more 

 general cultivation; as it requires so little room, that a perfect 

 specimen may be reared on a square foot. 



Qiiantity of Seed ^ and Time of making Sowings. About half 

 an ounce of Grange's early white, and half an ounce of early 

 purple Cape, having been sown in March, one ounce of each of 

 the following sorts was sown the first week in May : — close- 

 headed early purple Cape, Knight's protecting, imperial late 

 white winter, new early sprouting, Portsmouth, early white 

 Malta, Grange's early white, new hardy Cape, and Miller's. 



For the manner of sowing and transplanting, see the article 

 on white cabbages in Vol. XIII. p. 358. Mr. Dowding neither 

 pricked out, nor in any way protected, his broccoli plants, but 

 sowed in an open compartment very thinly ; and, when the plants 

 were about 4 in. high, had them transplanted into well-manured 

 soil, keeping them well watered till they became established and 

 began to grow. The plants of all the varieties, when trans- 

 planted, may stand 30 in. between the rows, and 18 in. apart in 

 the rows, with the exception of Miller's, which should stand 

 15 in. by 9 in. 



Borecole, or Scotch Kail. — Two ounces sown in March, and 

 two ounces sown in May (for the manner of sowing and trans- 

 planting, see white cabbage. Vol. XIII. p. 358.), and when about 

 4 in. high, transplanted into any ordinary open compartment, in 

 rows 2 ft. by 1 ft., will brin(T succession enouffh for a spring 

 supply, the only season this article is m request near the me- 

 tropolis. 



Isletwrth, Feb. 1837. 



Art. X. Floricultural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

 newly introduced into our Gardens, and that have originated in them, 

 and on Kinds of Interest previously extant in them ; supplemejitaru 



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