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As to the quantity of cabbages wanted for a fami- 

 ly, it must depend on the size of the family and on 

 their taste. 



202. CALABASH. An annual. Cultivated 

 like the cucumber, which see. 



203. CALE. This is of the cabbage kind. 

 There are several sorts of it ; and, it is, in all re- 

 spects, propagated and cultivated like the Green 

 Savoy, which see under Cabbage. The Cale 

 does not head, or loave, but sends forth a loose, 

 open top, which in England, is used after the 

 frost has pinched it, and then it sends out side- 

 shoots from its tall stem, which it continues to do 

 if kept cropped, till May. In mild winter cli- 

 mates it is very useful and pleasant. It does not 

 get rotted by the successive freezings and thaw- 

 ings, as cabbages do. It is always green and 

 fresh. Backward -planted savoys, may, perhaps 

 be as good ; but the Cale is very good too. It 

 will, I dare say, stand throughout some winters as 

 far North as Philadelphia. It is worth trying ; 

 for greens are very pleasant in winter. The 

 Curled Cale is the best. Its seed is saved like 

 that of the cabbage. There is a sort of Cale 

 called Boorcole, and a whole list of things of 

 somewhat the same kind, but to name them 

 would be of no use. 



204. CALE (Sea.) This is a capital article. 

 Inferior in point of quality to no vegetable but 

 the Asfiaragus, superior to that in merit of 

 earliness ; and, though of the easiest possible pro- 

 pagation and cultivation, I have never seen any 

 of it in America. It is propagated by seed, and 

 also by offsets. The seed may be sown, or the 

 young plants (at a year old) planted, or the offsets 



