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72 the amateur’s kitchen garden. 
Variegated Kale is grown for decorative purposes and 
garnishing. Its ornamental value depends on management. 
The seed should be sown rather late, on rather poor soil, 
and if the plants are intended to furnish flower beds during 
winter, they must be planted in them soon enough in autumn 
to become well rooted before severe frost occurs. If long 
legged, they should be planted deep to shorten them. As soon 
in spring as vegetation shows signs of renewed activity, carefully 
cut out the crowns of all the plants, but leave on them as 
many leaves as possible. They will at once produce rosette- 
like shoots of the most delicate colours, and for two or three 
weeks make a beautiful display. The crowns and sprouts of 
variegated kales are nearly, but not quite as good as those of 
the green kales when cooked. A row or so of this interesting 
vegetable should be sown every year even if there is no serious 
intention to employ them in the flower beds. They will come 
in usefully in various ways, if only as now and then affording 
a subject for conversation. 
We plant Sprouting Broccoli, Scotch Kale, and Cottager’s 
Kale, in rows four feet apart, alternately with potatoes, and 
the plants touch one another long before winter, and Become 
in a considerable degree self-protective. 
BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER. 
It is customary in gardening books to treat of the Broccoli 
and the Cauliflower as altogether distinct, and requiring 
different modes of cultivation. This is a mistake — they are 
not distinct — they differ in name chiefly ; and as to cultiva- 
tion, whatever rules apply to one, apply with equal force 
to the other. That we may be clearly understood, we are 
bound to say that the term “ cauliflower ” may be conve- 
niently applied to the most perfect white curd-like varieties 
that are cut during summer and autumn, as they are at once 
the most handsome and the most delicate-flavoured. But 
there is no inherent impropriety in regarding broccolis and 
cauliflowers as members of one class of vegetables, and the 
well-known Walcheren variety may be instanced in illustra- 
tion, for this is acknowledged to be either a broccoli or a 
cauliflower, at the discretion of the cultivator. If it be asked 
how the supposed distinction originated, it may be answered 
that the varieties of broccoli differ in degrees of hardiness, 
