The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner. 1 3 5 



As for the broccoli, there are three 

 kinds of it, one of which yields fproius 

 button'd at their points, or headed like 

 fmall collyflowersj another fort with 

 curl'd leaves, which produce fprouts 

 t)utton*d on the points like afparagusj 

 and a third with curl'd leaves of a pale 

 green colour, which yield fprouts like 

 the red kind j the two laft are to be had 

 at feveral places about London 5 but the 

 firft is very rare to be had, but from fome 

 few gentlemen that have them yearly 

 from Italy^ but now they are to be had 

 of feveral feedfmen about London^ par- 

 ticularly from that eminent, laborious, 

 and moft knowing feedfman and gardi- 

 ner, Mr. Carpenter of Brompton-7ark^ 

 from whom feveral gentlemen have, 

 this laft and fome other years, procured 

 them. 



The feeds may be fown for five or fixo/'/f.-//;; 

 of the fummer months runnins;, that '^^J 



, . r 1 of fomng. 



they may come m one after another, 

 and they require much the fame culture 

 as collyflowers doj for which reafon I 

 refer my reader to the diredions I have 

 laid down as to collyflowers, for the pro- 

 per culture of thefe plants. 



Certain 



