This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
Mr, Chorltgn has given in the present number a lucid account of the mode of cultivating the Cauliflower; while we were engaged in reading his article, the following came to our table in an English periodical; -
"1 beg to send you a head of Broccoli, which may possibly be worth attention. I have been an extensive grower of that vegetable for more than 20 years, and I have never seen anything like it before. To what cause is its anomalous condition to be attributed?" - J. Clark. [Your Broccoli is very curious, from the fact of six perfect heads being grown on one and the same plant. The cause of this rather unusual formation is probably owing to some injury which the growing point of the main stem may have received at a late period of the season; the effect of such an accident would be the production of several heads resembling the specimen you have been so good as to forward to us, and of which the accompanying sketch, although very much reduced, will convey a better idea than any lengthened description. - B].

 
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