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Belgium and have been long cultivated there. They were brought to 

 England about the middle of the last century, and are characterised by 

 the production of numerous buds in the form of miniature cabbages in 

 the axils of the leaves all along the stem, instead of making a single 

 large head at the summit. In six of Gerard's figures he shows a few 

 buds occurring on the otherwise bare stern. Such foreshadow the 

 possibility of their development into the modern form. 



In ordinary Brussels sprouts the globular buds are produced without 

 the leaves on the stems ; but Mr. James Carter developed a form in 

 which the leaves W 7 ere retained, covering the stem in an erect manner. 



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FIG. 19. MONSTROUS FORM OF CABBAGE (DALECHAMP, 1586). 



It was called ' Chou de Burghley,' but " it was not constant, and 

 sometimes ran into all sorts of other types." 



Gerard figures also " B. prolifera, Double Colewoort, No. 7, and 

 B. p. crispa, the Double Crispe Colewoort." His description of the 

 former is: " The Double Colewoort hath many large and great leaues, 

 whereupon do grow heere and there oher small iagged leaues, as it 

 were made of ragged shreds and iagges set vpon the smooth leafe, 

 which giueth" shewe of a plume or fanne of feathers." The other 

 variety only differs in having " intricately curled leaues, and so thick 

 set ouer with other small cut leaues, that it is hard to see any part of 



