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Walcheren. — Another wHte variety, producing very large 

 and firra heads. It is as large and fine as most Cauliflowers, 

 and is said by those who can see the difierence between Broccoli 

 and Cauliflower to endure both heat and cold, and dry weather 

 sdfio, better than a CauMower. 



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Eig. 57 shows the form in which it grows. This singular 

 variety of the Cabbage family is little cultivated in our climate. 

 Our summers seem to be 

 too hot for it, and it very 

 frequently becomes badly 

 infested with green fly or 

 aphis. It looks like a taU- 

 growing variety of Cabbage, 

 with a tuft of leaves and 

 sometimes a well formed 

 head on the top, and a large 

 number of small Cabbage 

 heads growing out of the 

 sides of the stalk in the 

 axUs of the leaves. When 

 the summer is cool and 

 moist, these little heads are 

 very tender and sweet, re- 

 sembling a Cauliflower in 

 flavor, but in hot, dry sum- 

 mers they are apt to be Fig. 57. 

 strong and sometimes bitter. There can really be no object in 

 cultivating it, except for the oddity of the thing, a weU-grown 

 Cauliflower being fully equal to an entire plant of Brussels 

 Sprouts in quantity and quality, and much more likely to yield 

 an adequate return for the labor bestowed. Those who wish to 

 give it a trial should cultivate it in all respects as they would a 

 Cabbage, and cook and serve as if it were Cauliflower. 



