of the Genus Brassica. 95 



deners by its sliort stem, by its leaves being thickly pressed 

 together when the plant is young, and expanding more or less 

 as it grows older, yet preserving at all times their distinctive 

 character of being blistered all over the surface, occasioned by 

 the parenchyma growing proportionally faster than the nerves, 

 in consequence of which it cannot be contained in the space 

 they leave. This race, commonly known in France by the 

 names of Chou de Milan *, Chou de Savoi/, Choii cahu frise, 

 Chou pomme frise, Chon de HoUande, and Chou Pcaicaller, is 

 intermediate between the Cavalier and the Kound-headed 

 Cabbages ; it is allied to the first by the intermediate variety 

 of the Palm Cabbage, which, as we observed before, has blis- 

 tered leaves like the one, and a long stalk like the other, but 

 never forms a head. It resembles the Round-headed Cab- 

 bages by the manner in which the leaves are disposed, and 

 differs from it by their appearance, which is plain in the 

 Round-headed Cabb.'iges ; or, what amounts to the same thing, 

 the nerves of the leaves are more loosely spread in the one 

 than in the other. Gardeners, in general, distinguish several 

 varieties in this race, which are founded on very slight dif- 

 ferences. Such are, according to Monsieur Mlmorin, 1st, the 

 Milan ordinaire, vulgaris ; 2d, the Milan hutif, or petit Milan, 

 prcecox, which is generally smaller than the preceding; 3d, 

 the Milan nain or court, humilis ; from which the 4th, Pan- 

 calier of Touraine, Turioncnsis, does not appear to be distinctly 

 separated ; 5th, the Milan dore, aurata ,■ 6th, the Milan d 

 tete longne, ohlonga ; this last may perhaps be looked upon 

 as a real variety, its character being more precisely marked, 

 and it is known to have been mentioned by ancient authors ; 

 7th, the Choii gros d' Ambervilliers, major, apparently the 

 same as the Milan des vcrtus, or Pom mc /'rise d'Alleuiagnr ; all 

 these varietiesf imdoubtedly belong to the C/ioii de Milan, l)ut 

 I have some hesitation in classing, as an 8th and last variety, 

 another kind of Cabbage, the Chou djefslf., gemmijWa, consi- 

 dered by good authority to belong to this race. It is re- 

 markable for its elevated stalk, which not oidy terminates in a 

 looser and more irregular head than the true Chou de Milan, 

 but emits from the axilla; of its inferior leaves a number of 



* These arc the Savoy Cabbages of the British gardens. — Sec 

 f It is probable tliat all these varieties of the Savoy arc in the rJrItish 

 gardens under iliffbrent names. In Mr. Morgan's |)a|)er on the Winter 

 Greens, before referred to (see Horticultural Transactions, vol. ii. page 307, 

 et teqq.) he describes the (I'recn Savoy, the Dwarf Savoy, and the Yellow 

 Savoy, as tlit throe most distinct kinds. — Sec. 



X The Bnisscls S|)routs.— ,SW'. Kee Morgan, in Iforticultnral Transac- 

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