. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. jured. E. Hobday. A. D. (see p. 188) tries hard to back np his statement of tlie advantages of heeling-in Broccoli for standingsevere winters. That the difference in the culture of Broccoli inmarket and private gardens has some effect upon the hardiness ofthe plant, there can be no doubt, and the heeling-in could not becarried out where acres of Broccoli are grown ; but even then, insevere winters, such as the one of 18R7, it would have paid marketgardeners to have heeled-in their Broccoli, for all bec
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. jured. E. Hobday. A. D. (see p. 188) tries hard to back np his statement of tlie advantages of heeling-in Broccoli for standingsevere winters. That the difference in the culture of Broccoli inmarket and private gardens has some effect upon the hardiness ofthe plant, there can be no doubt, and the heeling-in could not becarried out where acres of Broccoli are grown ; but even then, insevere winters, such as the one of 18R7, it would have paid marketgardeners to have heeled-in their Broccoli, for all became uselessafter the thaw set in on the Sird of January of that year. I hadsome breaks of Snows Winter and Dilcocks Bride heeled-in andprotected that year, and saved all; whilst other sorts,not so treated,were all lost, and none of the Brassica tribe escaped, except somelate Savoys and Curled Greens. Wjlliam Tilleby. Wdbcek. CAULIFLOWER GROWING AT Cauliflower around Erfurt is grown in low, swampy ground,which is thrown up in wide ridges. The plants are set on the. Cauliflower and Culture at Erfurt. ridges, and between these are ditches of water. Every dry day thewater is bailed from these ditches upon the growing plants, and theresult is Cauliflower of enormous size, compact, and almost as whiteas snow. The annexed engraving gives a good idea of theseCauliflower gardens and the process of watering. In the is grown, both for cutting and seed. James Vick. Celery, Red and White,—As a white sort, I find DwarfIncomparable to be one of the best; for, although it looks when growing beside some of the kinds, itcompares favourably with them when trimmed for use, as the heartis solid and compact, and there is little useless leaf. The LeicesterRed is also an excellent kind, which, with us, has kept well. Asregards the merits of growing Celery in single lines, or double andtreble ones, I prefer the old plan of single r
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