440 History of Garden Vegetables. [May 
White, Early Purple, the Large Purple Cape, and the White 
Cape or Cauliflower-brocoli. 
The first and third kind of Switzer, 1729, are doubtless the 
heading brocoli, while the second is as probably the sprouting 
form. These came from Italy, and as the seed came mixed, we 
may assume that variety distinctions had not as yet become 
recognized, and that hence all the types of the brocoli now grown 
have originated from Italy. It is interesting to note, however, 
that at the Cirencester Agricultural College, about 1860, sorts 
of brocoli were produced, with other variables, from the send of 
the wild cabbage." 
“The Sprouting or n Gencol represents the first form 
exhibited by the new vegetable when it ceased to be the earliest 
cabbage, and was grown with an especial view to its shoots; 
after this, by continued selection and successive improvements, 
varieties were obtained which produced a compact white head, 
and some of these varieties were still further improved into kinds 
which are sufficiently early to commence and complete their 
entire growth in the course of the same year;, these last named 
kinds are now known by the name of Cauliflowers.”— Vi/morin? 
The names of the Brocoli are,—France, chaux brocolis, Chou- 
fleur d'hiver; Germany, broccoli, brockoli, spargelkohl; Flanders 
and Holland, drokelie ; Denmark, broccoli, asparages kaal; Italy 
cavol broccolo; Spain, brocult ;3 Arabic, sjami;+ India, chootee 
phool kobees 
Brussets Sprouts, Brassica oleracea, bullata, gemmifera De C. 
This vegetable, in this country only grown in the gardens of 
amateurs, yet deserving of more esteem, has for a type-form a 
cabbage with an elongated stalk, and bearing groups of leaf-buds 
in the axils of the leaves. Sometimes occurring as a monstros- 
ity, branches instead of heads are so developed, as I noted in 
1883. Quite frequently an early cabbage, after the true head is 
removed, will develop small cabbages in the leaf-axils, and thus 
is formed the Brassica capitata polycephalos of Dalechamp 1587, 
which he himself describes as a certain unused and rare kind. 
Authors? have stated that the Brussels Sprouts has been 
Sachsen 8, 1879, 217. * Vilmorin, The Veg. Gard., iar oa 
