It is of the nature of the Cauliflower which see. One sort has a whitish head, and is like a cauliflower, except that the white is a yellow white. Another sort has a purple head; and there is another of a greenish hue. It is cultivated, in all respects like a Cabbage (which see;) but, as it is large, it must be placed at wider distances, not less than two feet and a half each way.

If raised very early in the spring and planted out in June, and in good ground, as cool as can be got, it will have heads in October; and, if any of the plants have not then perfected their heads, when the hard frost is coming, they may be treated like those of the spring sown cauliflowers which have not perfected their heads at this season.

Fifty of this plant, for the fall, may be enough; and they ought to be planted out in the South Border in order to be kept as cool as possible. The white sort is deemed the handsomest; but, the others are more hardy.

To have Broccoli in the spring; that is to say, in May (for New York) is the thing! The thing may be done; for I had some pretty good in May 1818.

Sow in June. Transplant in July; put the plants at 2 feet apart. Till well between; and earth up the stems of the plants in August. They will be very tall and stout, in good ground, in November; and a sharp frost or two will not hurt them. But, to keep them through the winter is a troublesome thing.

Nevertheless, to have them at New York or Boston in May, and, at Philadelphia late in April; to have something little. short of a cauliflower at that season, is worth some trouble, and even some expense; for, at that very season, the people of New York, are carrying home wild dock leaves from market, bought at three or four cents a handful!

This is the way to go to work to have Broccoli at this season. Five rows, across one of the Plats in the garden, will contain 110 plants. The space they will occupy will be 56 feet long, and 10 feet wide from out side row to out side row.

Now, all this space must have a covering during the time that the ground is completely locked up by the frost. And this is the way to cover it. Before the ground be hard frozen, put some stout stakes in the ground on both out sides of the out side rows, and at about a foot from the stems of the plants.

Let these stakes be about a foot higher than the tops of the leaves of the plants; and that will make the stakes about four feet high. Let these stakes (which should not be less than three inches through) have a fork at the upper end to lodge a pole upon to go from stake to stake across the plantation.

That these poles may not bend in the middle, by and by, when the covering is put on, put another row of forked stakes along the middle, or near the middle of the plantation. From out side row of stakes to out side row of stakes will be twelve feet and a half.

The stakes are to be four feet asunder in the long rows, and they will be about six feet asunder across the plantation. Lay stout poles across, and let each pole rest in the forks of the three stakes. Then tie some stout rods longways upon the poles, at about nine inches from each other. Then some small rods across them at nine inches from each other. Then tie small rods along the sides and at the ends from stake to stake, nine inches apart, and upright rods against these, nine inches apart. Thus you have a sort of network over the whole plantation.

And, there let it stand, till the rains are over, and until the winter is fairly set in, which, at New York, may be about Christmas. When all is frozen hard up, cover close over the lattice work a foot thick with straw, at the least, and lay on something to prevent the straw from moving. Then set up straw, or corn stalks, against the sides and the ends of the erection.

Place the straw or stalks a foot thick at least, and fasten them well up, so as to keep out, not the frost, but all light and all occasional thaws from entering.

Thus let the whole remain till the breaking up of the frost: and then take all away. Do not wait till the frost is out of the ground; but, take away as soon as the grand breaking up comes. You will find the plantation as green as it was when you closed it up. This will be about the middle of March (Long Island;) and though there will be many and sharp frosts after this, these will not injure the plants.

As soon as the ground is dry at top, hoe deep amongst the plants; hoe again in about ten days; and again in another ten days; and, about the first week in May, or in the second at latest, you will begin to cut Broccoli to eat.

The heads will come in one after another; and, recollect, that you have 110 heads, which is nearly 4 a day for a month; and this, you will observe, at a season, when people are glad to buy dock leaves to eat!

When we talk of trouble, what is trouble but labor; and what is labor but a thing to be bought? I am supposing a case where a gardener is kept; and, pray, what has he else to do? But, suppose a man to be hired expressly, would he not

go to the wood and get the materials and make the lattice work in a day? Would it take him more than another day to lay on the straw!

Here, then, are two dollars; and, supposing the straw and the stakes and poles and rods to be bought, the straw would be nearly as good for litter afterwards, and the poles, stakes and rods would last for many years, if tied up in bundles and laid safely away from winter to winter.