KEPORT ON THE VAEIETIES 0¥ KALE. 441 



Chou Moellier .... Vilmorin & Co! 



This is a form of the Cow Cabbage, which produces a thickly 

 swollen stem, thick in the middle and small at both ends. It 

 grows 4 to 4| feet high, and the stem in the thickest part is 

 about a foot in circumference in the largest specimens. The 

 inside of this thick stem is filled with succulent pith, -which is 

 Supposed to be the part fit for use. When cooked, however, it 

 Was discovered to be strong and coarsely flavoured. 



Chou vert glace d'Amerique . . Yx l:\iorin & Co- 



This appears to be intermediate between a cabbage and a bore- 

 cole. It has a stem from 9 inches to a foot higb, terminated by a 

 very loose flat head, which very soon runs to seed. The whole 

 plant is of a pale sickly yellowish-green colour, and entirely 

 without any glaucescence, or *^ bloom " upon the foliage. It is 

 very tender, and quite w^orthless as a winter green. 



Chou vivace de Daubentou , , Vilmorin & Co. 



This is merely a dwarfer form of Chou branchu de Poitou, 

 from which it may also be distinguished by its spreading lower 

 shoots, which incline towards the ground, where they sometimes 

 take root. It is a coarse and inferior sort, and not fit for garden 

 culture. 



Cottager's Kale . . • . Turner. 



Selected Cottagers Kale . . Scott. 



The stem is about 2 feet high ; the plants are partly green, 

 and partly purple, some with plain leaves and some with curled, 

 while others formed buds on the stem, like a spurious stock of 

 Brussels Sprouts. In spring, the plants throw out a great mass 

 of shoots, and yield a large crop of greens. 



Curled Kale, Tall . ,^ . . Cooper & Bolton. 



This is what is known by the names of Tall Green Borecole^ 

 German Greens, Tall Scotch Kale, and by the French Chou /rise 

 vert Grand du Nord. The plant grows 2| feet high, and pro- 

 duces a great quantity of dark green curled leaves. In the 

 spring it throws out a large supply of shoots, which are much 

 esteemed as a culinary vegetable. 



Curled 



Choufi 

 Dwarf ^ 



Cooper & BotxcK. 

 VioroRTN & Co. 

 Lee. 



The Dwarf Curled Kale is in every respect similar to the tall 



