62 GARDENING For ALL. 
On planting out finally, choose ground in good heart, and 
if it is in rich condition, do not apply any fresh manure ; but 
should it be poor and exhausted, then a moderate dressing 
of manure wiil be beneficial. Ground from which early peas 
or beans are cleared will suit borecole admirably without 
any further preparation than simply scuffling it and raking 
off the weeds and rubbish. 
Plant in rows diagonally, and two feet apart each way. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS.— (Brassica oleracea builata geminifera) 
The above vegetable is a deservedly popular one. It is 
at once hardy, profitable, continuous in bearing, easy to grow, 
delicious, and not liable to many insect attacks. It should be 
given a place in every garden, whether for home consumption 
or for market, because it survives and is fit for use when all 
other green vegetables are destroyed by severe weather, and 
are rendered useless. 
An imperial acre will hold 6,970 plants at two-and-a-half 
feet apart all ways. Let us suppose some are failures, and 
that 6,500 good plants are left; these, at a penny each when 
full grown, will be worth £27 1s. 8d. Further, there is always 
a sale for Brussels sprouts, they are rarely a drug in the 
market, and they may be gathered from September to March 
or April, or say, for six months out of the twelve. When 
sold by weight they are usually sold by the bushel of forty 
pounds, and the wholesale market price varies from half-a- 
crown to five shillings per bushel, according to their quality, 
the time of year, and the supply or non-supply of other green 
vegetables. Can more be said on behalf of any other 
vegetable crop ? 
The statement has already been made that Brussels 
sprouts are easy to grow. Few vegetables give less trouble. 
Persons who have not the convenience of glass structures 
and yet are desirous of obtaining the largest stems of sprouts 
as eatly as possible, may sow seed about the middle of August. 
The seedlings, as soon as large enough to handle, ought to 
be pricked out, about four inches apart, at the end of 
September. A sheltered place should be chosen for them 
and some protection given them in frosty weather. These 
