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and even upwards. The leaves are large, measuring 

 from two and a half to nearly three feet in length, smooth, 

 or but slightly curled. 



It is generally grown for stock ; but the young sprouts are 

 tender and mild-flavored when cooked. Its value for agri- 

 cultural purposes appears to have been greatly overrated ; 

 for, when tried in this country against other varieties of cab- 

 bages, the produce was not extraordinary. 



The plants should be set three feet or three feet and a 

 half apart. 



A new vegetable, the result of a cross be- Dalmeny 



Sprouts. 



tween the common heading Cabbage and Brus- 

 sels Sprouts. The stem is a foot and upwards in height, 

 and is not only thickly set with sprouts, or small cabbages, 

 like the Brussels Sprouts, but terminates in a Cabbage of 

 medium size. 



The seeds are sown, and the plants are treated in all re- 

 spects as Borecole, or as Brussels Sprouts. 



Stalk four or five feet in height or length. The Daubenton's 



Creeping 

 leaves are nearly two feet long, deep green ; the Borecole. 



leaf stems are long and flexible. It sometimes takes root 

 where the stem rests upon the surface of the ground, and, 

 on this account has been called perennial. 



The variety is hardy, and yields abundantly ; though, in 

 this last respect, it is inferior to the Thousand-headed. 



The Dwarf Green Curled is a hardy but Dwarfed 



Green Curled 

 comparatively low-growing variety, the stem Borecole. 



seldom exceeding sixteen or eighteen inches in DWARF CURLED 



KALE. GREEN 



height. The leaves are finely curled, and the iSSrWawVa. 



CANADA DWARF 



crowns of the plants, as well as the young CURLED. 



