Upon a banderol of silk, 



Broidered on ground as white as milk, 



His cognizance he bore; 

 Carnations triple intertwined, 

 In fiery scarlet deftly lined, 

 By willing hands when far apart, 

 A token of a loving heart 



A heart that beats no more. . 



ABBAGE. 



The Brassicce, or Cab- 

 bages, are the most impor- 

 tant product of the garden, 

 whether we look at them 

 as a necessary or a luxury 

 are also, except under a 

 system of rotation crop- 

 exhaustive class of vege- 

 gardener's care. With 



of life. They 



well-considered 



ping, the most 



tables under .the 



such properties, it is not surprising to find j Dwarf, 



that they were well known to the ancients, i Sugarloaf, Drumhead, Red Dutch, Purple 



he mentions the white-cabbage cole, red- 

 cabbage cole, the curled garden cole, the 

 Savoie cole, the curled Savoy, and one 

 which he calls the "swollen colewort," 

 and rape-cole, which, he says, " must be 

 carefully set and sown, as musk-melons 

 and cucumbers." This variety has now 

 become one of our hardiest field plants. 



The principle cabbages now cultivated in 

 this country are the Early Battersea, Early 

 Early York, Imperial Penton, 



and that, in all probability, we are in- 

 debted to the Romans for their first cultiva- 



Turnip, Savoy, Green Savoy, and Yellow 

 Savoy, and the numberless varieties which 



tion in British gardens. 



Gerarde is the oldest English author 

 who has written on this useful vegetable : i vegetables is biennial, triennial and nearly 



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have sprung from them. 



Classification. This important family of 



