On the Culture of Early Purple Brocoli. 117 



the Pollen of any other variety to their flowers, the progeny 

 in ninety-nine instances out of a hundred, will be deterior- 

 ated instead of improved, and in no case prove the identical 

 variety sown. 



The Brocoli, of which I am now emboldened to offer some 

 account to the Horticultural Society, is reported to have 

 been introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, by the Hon. 

 Marmaduke Dawnay, and first cultivated in Surrey, where 

 it is called the Early Cape Brocoli. Packets of seed, first sent 

 here from Italy, which appear to me to have produced the 

 same variety, have also been sold for two seasons by Mr. 

 Grange, fruiterer, in Covent Garden and Piccadilly: it may 

 therefore easily be obtained, and our principal care now, 

 must be to preserve it, in its present magnitude and excel- 

 lence. 



My method of treating it is as follows. Three crops are 

 sown annually : the first between the 12th and 18th of April : 

 a second between the 18th and 24th of May : the third 

 between the 19th and 2oth of August : these successive crops 

 supply the family from September till the end of May. 



The seeds are scattered exceedingly thin, in a border of very 

 rich light earth. Not a weed is suffered to appear, and when 

 the young plants have from eight to ten leaves, which hap- 

 pens in about a month, they are finally planted out at the dis- 

 tance two feet every way, in a piece of sandy loam, which has 

 been well prepared for the purpose by digging, and enriched 



Cauliflower seeds, which only produced long-leaved Cabbages, has been stampt 

 with immortality by the pen of Linnjeus, in his celebrated treatise on the sexes 

 of plants, the Sponsalia Phntarum, and confirms this remark. 



