EEPORT ON THE VARIETIES OF KALE. 



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the best of the garden varieties grown in tliis collection, proved 

 to be the following ; 



Albicans, 

 BuckiL 



Carl Appelius. 



Charles Wood, 



Criterion, 



flora. 



Jolin Salter* 



Le Dante. 

 Leonie Kien, 

 Mons. Memminge^, 

 Odile. 

 Purple Prince. 



Eose of England. 

 Roseus grandiSorua, 

 Scarlet Geni,^ 

 Tynninghamii, 



LI.— REPORT ON THE VARIETIES OP KALE, 



OR BORECOLE, GROWN IN THE GARDEN 

 DURING THE SEASON OP 18G1— 62. 



By EoEERT Hogg, LL.D,, F.L.S., Secretary to the Fruit Coinmfftee. 



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Asparagus Kale. 



It does not appear to be clearly understood to what kihd of 

 Winter Green the name of Asparagus Kale properly belongs. The 

 name is evidently derived from the spring shoots of some of thg 

 sorts being cut into lengths and cooked like asparagus, to which 

 they bear some resemblance when treated in that way. The two 

 sorts to which this name has been applied are the Braganza 

 Cabbage {Couve tronchuda) and the Egyptian Kale. Both of 

 these throw out in the spring a great quantity of long thick 

 succulent shoots, which, when cooked like asparagus, are no 

 mean substitute for that vegetable. To which of these the name 

 of Asparagus Kale belongs is quite a matter of opinion, and no 

 disappointment need be experienced should the one at any time 

 be substituted for the other. One advantage, however, which the 

 Egyptian Kale has over the Bx'aganza Cabbage is, its greater 

 hardiness, which is so great as to withstand the frost of our 

 ordinary severe winters; whereas the Braganza Cabbage alwayi=i 

 more or less, suffers, unless the winters are mild. 



Buda Kale 



Cooper & Boltox. 



The plant produces a stout stem, 18 inches to 2 feet high, 

 clothed with leaves, and in the spring it throws out a leading 

 shoot, and numerous side shoots from the ground upwards^ vrliich 

 are not more than 6 inches long. The leaves are almost plain, 



and bluntly toothed, ^ . , 



somewhat similar iu the general appearance of the foliage to 



Egyptian Kale, it is much taller and not nearly so productive. 



The plant is very hardy, and though 



