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of if in. In the first year of its growth it does not usually exceed 

 3 or 4 ft. in height. The plant produces a great number of leaves, 

 which are green, large, cut at the base, but 

 oval-rounded at the end, slightly crimped 

 or puffed on the upper surface, and often 

 over 2\ ft. long. 



Large-leaved Jersey Kale or Sarthe 

 Cow Cabbage. This variety, which comes 

 very near the preceding kind, but is usually 

 not so tall, is especially remarkable for the 

 enormous size of its leaves, which often 

 grow more than 3 ft. long and from 12 to 

 14 in. broad. It is a very productive cattle- 

 feeding Cabbage, succeeding best in rich soil 

 in a temperate climate, as it is not perfectly 

 hardy. 



Flanders Purple Borecole, or Flanders 

 Kale. A cattle-feeding plant of large size, 

 but somewhat smaller than the Tree Cabbage, from which it is 

 also distinguished by the violet-red colour of its leaves and stem. 

 The plant is sometimes branched, in which respect it differs from 

 the Tree Cabbage, the stem of which is most usually unbranched. 

 The leaves of the Flanders Kale also are smaller and narrower 

 in proportion to their length. 



English Thousand-headed Cabbage, or Branching Borecole. 

 Another very large kind, differing from the Tree Cabbage in the 



Tree or Jersey Kale, 



Flanders Purple Borecole. English Branching Borecole. 



stem being usually divided into a number of branches, each bearing 

 large leaves almost like those of the Tree Cabbage. Although 

 not so tall as that, it is generally considered more productive ; 

 but it is not so hardy, and often suffers from the winters of the 

 middle and north of France. 



Improved, or French Thousand-headed, Cabbage. A very 

 distinct variety, raised in La Vendee, and, unfortunately, rather 



