276 BRASSICACEOUS PLANTS. 



The plants should be set eighteen inches by twelve inches 

 apart. 



Tour's Sa- Head small, loose, and irregular ; leaves 



voy. 

 DWARF GREEK numerous, bright green, rigid, concave or 



CURLED SAVOY. 



spoon-shaped ; the nerves and ribs large, and 

 the entire surface thickly and finely covered with the blister- 

 like swellings peculiar to the Savoys. 



It has some resemblance to the Early Dwarf Savoy, but 

 is larger, less compact, and slower in its development. 



A useful, hardy, smallish sort, adapted to small gardens, 

 requiring only eighteen or twenty inches space each way. 

 Excellent for use before it becomes fully cabbaged. 



Yellow Dwarf, middle-sized, round ; leaves pale green 



Curled Sa- 

 voy. Thomp. at first, but quite yellow in winter ; the heart is 



LARGE LATE 



1 wmx' 'SAVOT Y " not so com P act as some, but of tender quality, 

 and by many preferred, as it is much sweeter 

 than the other kinds. It is later and hardier than the Yel- 

 low Savoys before described. 



SEA-KALE. 



Crambe maritima. 



Sea-kale is a native of the southern shores of Great 

 Britain, and is also abundant on the sea-coasts of the south 

 of Europe. There is but one species cultivated, and this is 

 perennial and perfectly hardy. The leaves are large, thick, 

 oval or roundish, sometimes lobed on the borders, smooth, 

 and of a peculiar bluish-green color ; the stalk, when the 

 plant is in flower, is solid and branching, and measures about 

 four feet in height; the flowers, which are produced in 

 groups, or clusters, are white, and have an odor very similar 



