174 KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Early White, which is also a desirable sort, should be sown 
on a hotbed, and treated like the secondary crop of cauli- 
flower. 
The spring varieties are extremely valuable, as they 
come into use at a season when the finer vegetables are 
scarce, They are sown in the middle of March or the. bo- 
ginning of April, and afford.a supply from March to May 
of the following year. The Late White (sometimes called 
Dwarf Tartarian) bears a great resemblance to cauliflower, 
and often passes for it. 
To obtain seed of the Brassica tribe, the most genuine 
and characteristic specimens of the different varieties should 
be selected in autumn, in such a state of advancement as 
that they will flower as early as possible in the following 
spring. They should be planted in an open situation, and 
kept as far distant from other kinds of the same tribe as 
may be. As they are very liable to cross or hybridize, it 
is perhaps better, except in the case of some favorite vari- 
ety, to procure supplies from a respectable seedsman, from 
whom they are almost uniformly to be had genuine, the 
extensive seed-growers being at great pains to prevent 
intermixture of crops. 
Grange’s Early White, and the Early Purple Cape, are 
the kinds best adapted to the climate of the Middle States. 
The Dwarf Tartarian, White Malta, and Late White, are 
fine sorts for situations south of Virginia, where they may 
remain out all winter. But to be able to have them during 
winter in the Middle and Northern States, it is necessary, 
before the occurrence of a severe frost, to remove them 
from the garden, by careful iaiey, and replant thera under 
a shed or in a cellar. 
