46 BORECOLE, OR KALE. 



BORECOLE, OR KALE. 

 CHOU FRISE VERT. Brassica oleracea, etc. 



VARIETIES. 



Green Curled, or Scotch. 

 Dwarf Brown, or German. 

 Purple Fringed. 



Jerusalem, or Buda. 

 Cesarean Kale. 

 Thousand-headed Cabbage. 



THERE are several sub-varieties of this genus of plants 

 besides those above specified, most of which have large open 

 heads, with curled wrinkled leaves. The Dwarf Curled, or 

 Finely Fringed sorts, are much cultivated in Europe for the 

 table ; and the coarse and tall-growing are considered pro- 

 fitable for cattle. The Thousand-headed Cabbage, and Ce- 

 sarean Kale, grow from three to five feet high,' and branch 

 out. from the stem, yielding an abundant supply of leaves 

 and sprouts in the winter and spring. 



For the garden, these several varieties may be treated in 

 every respect as Winter Cabbage. The seed may be sown 

 from about the middle of May to the first week in June, and 

 the plants set out in the month of July, in good rich ground. 

 They are never so delicious as when rendered tender by 

 smart frosts ; they are valuable plants to cultivate, particu- 

 larly in the more Southerly States, as they will there be in 

 the greatest perfection during the winter months ; they will 

 also, if planted in a gravelly soil, and in a sheltered warm 

 situation, bear the winter of the Western States ; and may 

 be kept in great perfection in the Eastern States, if taken 

 up before the frost sets in with much severity, and placed in 

 trenches, up to their lower leaves, and then covered with 

 straw or other light covering : the heads may be cut off 

 as they are required for use ; and in the spring, the stems 

 being raised up, will produce an abundance of delicious 

 greens. 



One ounce of good Borecole seed will produce about four 

 thousand plants, and may be sown in a border four feet by 

 ten, or thereabout. 



