AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 147 



KALE OR BORECOLE. 



French, Chou Vert. German, Grune Kohl. Spanish, Breton sin Cabeza. 

 GREEN CURLED. PURPLE CURLED. 



Kale, or borecole, if raised at all, should be sown and treat- 

 ed precisely as winter cabbage. 



It is a species of cabbage that does not head, but grows up 

 with a considerable mass of leaves, which are very much curl- 

 ed. It is very hardy, enduring the rigors of the severest win- 

 ter with a slight covering, and in the spring its young sprouts 

 are used for greens. See Greens, page 143. 



It is much used by some northern nations as an ingredient 

 in a kind of soup, particularly the green variety. 



It is a rank, coarse vegetable, that is utterly unfit to use un- 

 til thorough freezing has destroyed a portion of its acrid 

 strength, and is only fit for regions where no other cabbage 

 can be successfully raised or wintered. 



There is- a dwarf and less curled variety, largely used as 

 greens among the German residents of our cities, and known 

 as German Kale. It is sown thickly, in September, in drills a 

 foot apart, and, being kept clean through the fall, with a very 

 slight covering of litter or evergreen brush, and sometimes 

 without any covering, stands through the winter, and in the 

 spring, after it has grown a few inches, the whole plant is cut 

 up for use. 



KOHL RABI, OR TURNIP CABBAGE. 



French, Chou Navet.^- German, Kohl Rabi. Uber Erde Kohl Rabi. Span- 

 ish, ColdeRabi. 



This, like the former, if raised at all, should be sown and 

 treated in its cultivation as winter cabbage, which see, page 

 128. 



It is properly a turnip mounted upon a stem, or, rather, 

 formed by the enlargement of the stem near its crown, the 

 leaves which form the crown of the plant being thrown out im- 

 mediately above and partially upon the swelling which forms 

 the edible product. 



