Broccoli. Kohlrabi 



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There is a family of long-season and late-maturing 

 cauliflowers, relatively little grown in this country, known 

 under the general name of broccoli. This plant requires 

 the entire season in which to mature, and in Europe it is 

 often allowed to stand over winter and to make its heads in 

 spring. The heads are usually smaller than those of cauli- 

 flower. 



KOHLEABI 



The treatment required hy Jcohlraii is that demanded 

 hy flat turnips. It is usually not transplanted. The plant 

 is grown for the tuierou^ stem, which must not he allowed 

 to become tough; rapid growth is essential. 



The plants usually stand, after thinning, 6 to 10 in. apart, 

 the rows being 18 in. to allow of the use of the wheel hoe 

 or farther apart if horse pillage is to be employed. An ounce 

 of seed should yield about 1,500 plants; 

 if grown as a field crop for stock, 4 to 5 

 lbs. of seed are usually allowed to the 

 acre, and the crop may be 500 or 1,000 

 bushels. 



The diseases and insects of cabbage 

 may attack kohlrabL 



Kohlrabi produces a turnip-like tu- 

 ber just above the ground. It is grown 

 mostly as a stock food and is rela- 

 tively little known in North Amer- 

 ica outside of Canada. However, it is 

 a very excellent garden vegetable, of 

 delicate flavor, if used before the tubers become large and 

 stringy, when they are yet globular or oblate; as the 



32. Kohlrabi (X 1/3). 



