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of sufficient strength for planting in the quarters where intended 
to produce their flowers or heads. 
The early purple broccoli, if sown early in this month and plant- 
ed as you do cabbage, in good rich ground, will produce fine head& 
in October or November, very little inferior to cauliflowers, and by 
many preferred to them; the white will not flower so early, and in 
the middle and eastern states must be taken up in November and 
managed as directed in that month, by which a supply of this very 
delicious vegetable may be had in great perfection during all the 
winter and. spring. 
In such of the southern states as their winters are not more 
severe than in England, they will stand in the open ground, and 
continue to produce their fine flowers from October to April. In 
the middle, and especially in the eastern states, if the seeds are 
sown early in March on a hot-bed, and forwarded as is done with 
cauliflowers and early cabbage plants, and planted out finally in 
April, it would be the most certain method of obtaining large and 
early flowers. All these kinds produce heads exactly like the 
cauliflower, only that some are of a purple colour, some green, 
some black, and the white kind so exactly resembles the true cau- 
liflower, as to be scarcely distinguished therefrom, either in colour 
or taste. 
If any plants were raised in the preceding months, let some of 
them be pricked out now into nursery beds, to get strength for 
planting out finally. 
Peas. 
Continue to sow successional crops of peas every ten or twelve 
days, as directed in pages 133 and 185, to which I refer you for 
instructions. 
You may now sow the dwarf-sugar and the dwarf Spanish-peas| 
they are both plentiful bearers, and do not require to be rodded, as 
they never rise more than from twelve to eighteen inches high. 
They are to be sown in drills two feet asunder, very thin, and 
covered about two inches deep. 
Leadman's dwarf pea is, perhaps, the most prolific and profitable 
of the whole family, it bears most abundantly, and is very delicious; 
it rises to the height of from two and a half to three feet, accord- 
ing to the soil, and may, or may not be rodded, but if having some 
support, the produce will be the greater. 
The tall crooked sugar pea is particularly worthy of cultivation, 
and should now be sown; its green pods, when young, are boiled 
like kidney -beans, and are uncommonly sweet and delicious; these 
grow to a considerable height, and require rods from seven to eight 
feet high, and to be sown in drills at least four {ttt asunder. 
If you sowed no peas in the preceding months, the early frame, 
early golden, and Charleton hotspur kinds should now be sown 
for first crops; and for succession, the glory of England, Spanish 
morotto, white, green, and grey rouncivals; or the tall marrowfat, 
imperial, sugar-poland and blue Prussian kinds. The nine last 
