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fleshy. The leaf-stems are also thicker and shorter than 

 those of the last named varieties. 



The stalk is largest towards the top, and has the form of 

 that of the Marrow-stem. It sometimes approaches so near 

 that variety as to be scarcely distinguishable from it. 



The Neapolitan Borecole is remarkable for Neapolitan 



Borecole, 

 its peculiar manner of growth, but is hardly Trans. 



NEATOLITAX 



worthy of cultivation as a table vegetable, or CURLED KALE. 

 even for stock. The stem is short and thick, and terminates 

 in an oval bulb, somewhat in the manner of the Kohl Rabi. 

 From all parts of this bulb are put forth numerous erect, 

 small leaves, finely curled on their edges. The whole plant 

 does not exceed twenty inches in height. The leaves are at- 

 tached to footstalks six or seven inches long. They are 

 obovate, smooth on the surface, with an extraordinary num- 

 ber of white veins, nearly covering the whole leaf. The 

 fringed edges are irregularly cut and finely curled, and so 

 extended as nearly to conceal the other parts of the leaf. 

 As the plant gets old it throws out numerous small branches 

 from the axils of the leaves on the sides of the bulb. 



The swollen portion of the stem is of a fleshy, succulent 

 character, and is used in the manner of Kohl Rabi, between 

 which and the Cabbage it appears to be intermediate. 



Stalk six feet in height, terminating at the Palm Kale. 



. ,, .. -1 i i PALM BORECOLE. 



top in a cluster ot leaves, which are nearly en- 

 tire on the borders, blistered on the surface like those of the 

 Savoys, and which sometimes measure three feet in length 

 by four or five inches in width. 



As grown in France, the plant is remarkable for its fine 

 appearance, and is considered quite ornamental, though, as 

 an article of food, it is of little value. In England, it is 

 said to have a tall, rambling habit, and to be little esteemed. 



