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they would not be very instructive. The seed, faithfully and correctly 
named, several models in wax and drawings, are what we possess, and 
these, as well as the other esculent Crucifere, are fully described in 
Messrs. Lawson’s work. We confine our notice to some of the better- 
T defined kinds. 
| Tree or Cow Cabbage. Seed and stems, and walking-sticks. Often 
called Chou Chevalier, Chou à Vaches, Jersey Kale or Cabbage. This is 
certainly one of the most remarkable of the Cabbage kind, having a 
hard and woody stalk, averaging, Messrs. Lawson say, five feet high. 
No one can visit Jersey without being struck with this plant in the 
kitchen gardens, not five feet high only, but frequently eight and ten 
feet ; and we remember a dried stalk in Mr. Lambert’s possession mea- 
suring thirteen feet in length. This great length is mainly produced 
by daily pulling off the lower leaves, as fodder for the cows, leaving 
foliage only at the top; thus a small garden of them has almost the 
appearance of a little plantation of Palms. Planted close, as living 
fences, they keep out fowls and small animals. Sheds are thatched 
!' with the dried stems. T serve for supporting kidney-beans, peas, 
| etc., and “as cross-spars” for the purpose of upholding the thatch or 
sot of the smaller classes of farm-buildings, cottages, ete., and when 
kept dry, are said to last upwards of half a century. At a distance 
from the coast, and in colder latitudes than Jersey, we have always seen 
this Cabbage degenerate. Some of our dried stalks measure nine feet 
in length, sent from Jersey by Mr. J. Dunscombe. The Mie Med 
are almost handsome. ae 
Of the other varieties of Cabbage we reckon, either in the shape 
of seeds, or drawings, or models, forty-one kinds, including Broccoli, 
Cauliflower, Kohl-Rabi, etc.; many are probably hybrids, though of 
great importance for agricultural and culinary purposes. 
Turnep. Brassica Rapa, L. Europe. This includes all the varieties — 
of the Common Turnep, of which forty-four sorts are represented by 
seed, drawings, or models, in the Museum. ‘That state of the root - 
called **4nbury," or “fingers and toes" (wax model), is well known " : 
farmers, and is a disease supposed to be caused by the soil. — 
Swedish Turnep, or Common Wild Navet. Brassica campestris, a 
Eight varieties of this are in the Collection, and E of — 
Oil is extracted from the variety called oleifera. E 
Common or Winter Rape, Cole-seed. Brassica Napus, L. Seed and x 
