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fitable for cattle. The Thousand-headed Cabbage^ and 

 Cesarean 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 Cabbages. The seeds 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? 

 particularly 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 winters 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 cutoff* 

 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 thereabouts. 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 



CHOU DE BRUXELLES AGETS. Brassica oleracea. 



This plant frequently grows from three to five feet high, 

 and produces from the stem small heads resembling cab- 

 bages in miniature, each being from one to two inches in 

 diameter. The top of the plant resembles the Savoy, when 

 planted late. The sprouts are used as winter greens, and 

 they become very tender when touched with the frost. 



The seed may be sown about the middle of May, in the 

 same manner as Borecole, and the plants set out with a 



