==Summer Broccoli== are useful when Peas are late, and they are always over in time to make way for the glut of the Pea crop.  Late Queen may, in average seasons, be cut at the end of May and sometimes in June, if sown about the middle of May in the previous year, and carefully managed.  This excellent variety can, as a rule, be relied on, both to withstand a severe winter in an exposed situation and to keep up the supplies of first-class vegetables until the first crop of Cauliflower is ready, and Peas are coming in freely.  Generally speaking, smallish heads, neat in shape and pure in colour, are preferred.  They are the most profitable as a crop and the most acceptable for the table.  An open, breezy place should be selected for a plantation of late Broccoli, the land well drained, and it need not be made particularly rich with manure.  But good land is required, with plenty of light and air to promote a dwarf sturdy growth and late turning in.

==Protection in Winter==.—­Various plans are adopted for the protection of Broccoli during winter.  Much is to be said in favour of leaving them to the risk of all events, for certain it is that finer heads are obtained from undisturbed plants than by any interference with them, provided they escape the assaults of winter frost.  But in such a matter it is wise to be guided by the light of experience.  In cold districts, and on wet soils where Broccoli do not winter well, heeling over may be adopted.  There are several ways of accomplishing the task, the most successful method being managed thus.  Open a trench at the northern end, and gently push over each plant in the first row so that the heads incline to the north.  Put a little mould over each stem to settle it, but do not earth it up any more than is needful to render it secure.  Push over the next row, and the next, and so on, finishing off between them neatly and leaving the plants nearly as they were before, save that they now all look northward, and their sloping stems are a little deeper in the earth than they were in the first instance.  This should be done during fine weather in November, and if the plants flag a little they should have one good watering at the roots.  In the course of about ten days it will be scarcely perceptible that they have been operated on.  They may be lifted and replanted with their heads to the north, but this is apt to check them too much.  In exceptionally cold seasons cover the plot with straw or bracken, but this must be removed in wet weather.  When it is seen that the heads are forming and hard weather is apprehended, some growers take them up with good balls of earth and plant them in a frame, or even pack them neatly in a cellar, and the heads finish fairly well, but not so well as undisturbed plants.  It is impossible, however, to cut good heads in a very severe winter without some such protective measures.  In many gardens glass is employed for protecting Winter Broccoli, in which case the plantations are so shaped that the frames will be easily adapted to them without any disturbance of the plants whatever.  There must be allowed a good space between the beds to be covered, and the plants must be fifteen to eighteen inches apart, with the object of protecting the largest number by means of a given stock of frames.