Broccolo

Like a wild weed meanwhile that infant grows, / and like a broccolo he’s soon in bloom: / he’s sent to school,[…]

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“I believe I mustn’t start tealing yet awhile,” said the old man, regretfully plunging his long Cornish spade into the baked earth, from which insufficient stability the instrument fell with a thump on to the path. […] “I feel frightened, Mr. Champion,” said Jenny suddenly. […] “Supposing it wasn’t a person at all?” said Jenny desperately. “You know, like us?” / The old man considered for a moment this morbid fancy. / “That’s a wisht old thought,” he said at last, “and I don’t see no call for it at all. When I do teal a lily root, I don’t expect to see a broccolo come bursting up and annoying me.”

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CELERY. (Apium graveolens.) / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now better for attention.[…]CHOU DE BURGHLEY. / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now grown to any extent.

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(Open Classes.) / Judge: Mr L. Page. /[…]Two broccoli. One entry—G. H. Bayles 1.[…] / One broccolo. One entry—Ivan Boyes 1.

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