The Tra£tical Kitchen Gardiner, iii 



have very good feed. The broccoli 

 from Italy will do, the feed being raised 

 in Englandy for once or twice, but af- 

 terwards it dwindles, as does the RuJJia 

 and Savoy cabbage. Collyflower is faved 

 well in Englandy from the flowers of the 

 fame year you plant them. 



Mod of thefe kinds require a culture of thek 

 and management diftind from one ano- '^'^^^^^^ "^"^ 

 ther. I fhall begin with the collyflower, ^m?^* ' 

 as being the firfl: that comes in during the 

 fummer-feafon, and on that account the 

 mofl: preferable of any 5 tho' the RuJJia 

 and Batterfea cabbages, in my humble 

 opinion, claim the precedence, as to 

 their intrinfick value and goodnefs. 



The collyflower requires to be fown in ofehec&li^i 

 five or fix diff'erent feafons ; thofe that/^^^''» . 

 are defign d to be early in the fpring, 

 and for that reafon kept under glaffes all 

 the winter with great care, fliould be 

 fow'd at two or three different times, 

 ^iz, about midfummer, about the mid- 

 dle of Jufyy and the middle of Auguft. 



If the autumnal and winter months 

 till Chrijlmas prove mild, we may ex- 

 ped fome of them to flower before or 

 iabout that time, efpecially if juft as 

 fhey are flowering they be put into the 

 3 gfeea^ 



