CHAPTER XVI. 

 THE CABBAGE FAMILY. 



COMMON CABBAGE. Brassica oleracea capitata. 

 French, chou cabus, chou pomme ; German, kopfkohl, kraut ; Dutch, slut- 

 kool ; Danish, hoved kaal ; Italian, cavolo cappuccio ; Spanish, col repollo ; Por- 

 tuguese, couve repolho. 



SAVOY CABBAGE. Brassica oleracea biillata. 



French, chou de Milan ; German, Savoyerkohl ; Dutch, savooikool ; Italian, 

 cavolo de Milano; Spanish, col de Milan; Portuguese, saboia. 

 BRUSSELS SPROUTS. Idem. 



French, chou de Bruxelles; German, Briisseler sprossen-wirsing ; Dutch, 

 spruitkool ; Danish, rosenkaal ; Italian, cavolo a germoglio. 

 CAULIFLOWER. Brassica oleracea botrytis. 



French, chou-fleur ; German, blumenkohl ; Dutch, bloemkool ; Italian, cavol- 

 flore; Spanish, coliflor; Portuguese, couve-flor. 

 BROCCOLI. Idem. 



French, choux brocolis, chou-fleur d'hiver; German, spargelkohl; Danish, 

 asparges kaal; Italian, cavol broccolo; Spanish, broculi. 



BORECOLE OR KALE. Brassica oleracea acephala. 

 French, choux verts; German, winterkohl; Dutch, boerenkool; Italian, 

 cavolo verde ; Spanish, coles sin cogollo. 

 COLLARDS. Idem. 



Jersey Kale; Thousand Headed Cabbage or Oregon Kale; also Marrow 

 Kale (chou moellier) grown for livestock and poultry. 



Other species of brassica, grown for fleshy stems or roots, rather than for 

 esculent foliage, will be classed as "turnips" in a subsequent chapter. 



California has a vast capacity as a supply region for esculents 

 of the cabbage family. The climate favors production and ship- 

 ment at a time when the eastern markets have only stored cabbage, 

 and California cauliflower is harvested in splendid size and quality 

 all through the winter months, so that the crop is disposed of be- 

 fore the eastern grower can trust his small plants to the open air. 

 Some years when there have been low freight rates, or a partial 

 failure in eastern production, there have been very large shipments 

 in direct competition with the eastern grown cabbage, in the early 

 autumn, and money has been made in selling California cabbage, 

 not as an early vegetable, but at prices which sauerkraut factories 

 were willing to pay. The eastern production has, however, been 

 more intelligently carried on during recent years, and California 

 producers have less opportunity in the farther east. In the great 

 central region of the country, however, California vegetable ship- 

 pers find a large market, and growing is done on a considerable 

 scale, but the aggregate is only a small fraction of what the state 

 could easily produce. 



The largest cabbage producing regions are the sandy loam up- 

 lands bordering San Francisco on the south, the lowlands of Santa 



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