Crossword-Solution: BRUSSEL 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Every one can appreciate the difference between green or red cabbages with great single heads; Brussel-sprouts with numerous little heads; broccolis and cauliflowers with the greater number of their flowers in an aborted condition, incapable of producing seed, and borne in a dense corymb instead of an open panicle; savoys with their blistered and wrinkled leaves; and borecoles and kails, which come nearest to the wild parent-form.

This latter variety is a new one, and bears the same relation to common broccoli, as Brussel-sprouts do to common cabbages; it suddenly appeared in a bed of common broccoli, and was found faithfully to transmit its newly-acquired and remarkable characters.

One kind, however, called “Cottager’s Kail,” has lately been produced by crossing common kail and Brussel-sprouts, recrossed with purple broccoli,[71] and is said to be true; but plants raised by me were not nearly so constant in character as any common kind of cabbage.

Although most of the kinds keep true if carefully preserved from crossing, yet the seed-beds must be yearly examined, and a few seedlings are generally found false; but even in this case the force of inheritance is shown, for, as Metzger has remarked[72] when speaking of Brussel-sprouts, the variations generally keep to their “unter art,” or main race.

The bride wore a while _épinglé_ dress and mantle trimmed with grebe, a white bonnet with orange blossoms, and a Brussel's lace veil.