BROCCOLI, 
BROCCOLI. 
Chou Brovxli, Brassica oleracea 
Early White. 
Early Dwart Purple. 
Early Green. 
Dwarf Brown. 
Large Late Purple. 
VARIETIES. 
Large Purple Cape. 
White Cape, or Cauliflower 
Sulphur-coloured Cape 
Branching Purple. 
Large Late Green. 
The several varieties c«f Broccoli and Cauliflower may be 
justly ranked among the greatest luxuries of the garden. 
They need only be known in order to be esteemed. The 
Broccoli produces heads, consisting of a lump of rich, seedy 
pulp like the Cauliflower, only that some are of a green 
colour, some purple, some brown, &c., and the white kinds 
so exactly resemble the true Cauliflower, as to be scarcely 
distinguishable, either in colour or taste. 
Broccoli is quite plentiful throughout England the greater 
part of the year, and it is raised with as little trouble as 
Cabbages are here. The mode of raising the purple Cape 
Broccoli is now generally understood in this part of America ; 
but the cultivation of the other kinds has been nearly aban- 
doned, on account of the ill success attending former attempts 
to bring them to perfection. 
In some of the Southern States, where the winters -are not 
more severe than in England, they will stand in the open 
ground, and continue to produce their fine heads from No- 
vember to April. In the Eastern, "Western, and Middle 
States, if the seed of the late kinds be sown in April, and 
the earlier kinds in May, in the open ground, and treated 
in the same manner as Cauliflower, it would be the most 
certain method of obtaining large and early flowers ; but as 
only a part of these crops can be expected to come to per- 
fection before the approach of winter, the remainder will 
haVe to be taken up, laid in by the roots, and covered up 
with earth to the lower leaves, in some sheltered situation, 
to promote the finishing of their growth. 
