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are, on that account, easier for the amateur to grow. 

 Purple Cape is the hardiest variety, and has the best 

 flavor when cooked, being much finer than cauliflower, 

 but its color is a drawback. The large late varieties, 

 and especially those of a biennial nature, may be avoided. 

 Cultivate in all respects like cabbage. 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS may also be cultivated exactly like 

 cabbage. As nearly all varieties are for late use, and 

 are better after having been touched by frost, they may 

 be handled with the crop of late cabbage or with kale. 

 Paris Market is the best standard variety. Fig. 243 shows 

 a plant well furnished with the little heads, each an inch 

 or two in diameter. 



KALE is also best for use after frost, or even when 

 kept into the winter or till spring. It may thus come in 

 with the later crop of cabbage, 

 being handled in exactly the 

 same way. Dwarf Curled and 

 Tall Curled will please most 

 people best. Kale produces 

 no dense head. The plant is 

 used for "greens." 



COLLARDS. This is a south- 

 ern development of the kale 



type, which is suitable to warmer <2M - A good trellis for tomatoes, 



holding the vines apart and 

 climates and longer seasons. allowing all fruits to receive 



It is ranker in growth and air and light - 

 coarser in foliage than the common kales. It is treated 

 precisely like cabbage or kale. Georgia Collards is the 

 variety mostly grown. 



5. Solanaceous Groups Tomato, Eggplant, etc. 



These vegetables are all natives of southern zones, and 

 have not yet become so far acclimatized in the North as 

 not to need the benefit of our longest seasons. Plants 



