By Mr. Hugh Ronalds. 



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end of April, it will produce large compact green heads 

 during the whole succeeding May. The leaves are much 

 undulated and indented, narrow and long, with a tinge of 

 purple in the stems. Two feet distance is sufficient for the 

 plants. I believe this is called by some the Danish Broccoli. 



These very useful and delicious vegetables having been 

 long and successfully cultivated, little remains to be said 

 respecting then management. It being, however, desired, I 

 offer a short view of that mode of treatment which has ap- 

 peared to me to succeed best, it being similar for all the dif- 

 ferent sorts. 



The seed beds should be prepared of light rich mould, well 

 dug, and if dry, watered the evening before sowing. The seeds, 

 must be thinly sown, and the beds should be covered with 

 mats or litter till the plants appear, the covering may then be 

 removed, and the plants watered occasionally as the state of 

 the weather requires ; should that continue very dry, the best 

 method is to transplant, when the plants are about two or 

 three inches high, into other beds about four inches asunder. 

 Being several times refreshed by sprinklings of water, they 

 will, in a fortnight or three weeks, be sufficiently strong for 

 a second remove. This mode offers some advantage in giving 

 time to clear off any crops of peas, &c. thereby obtaining 

 ground which could not otherwise be conveniently had at 

 the first season of planting out. The four first sorts on the 

 list, which I consider as congeners, should be only once 

 transplanted, as the check their removal occasions is apt to 

 produce the heads prematurely, which, in that case, will be 

 small, and indifferent in quality. If the season is showery, 

 it will be needful to cover the beds as soon as sown, with net- 



