176 KALE HORSE RADISH. 



growing of kale; and there is nothing in which the 

 advantage of high breeding is more discernible. For 

 though kale be of universal cultivation, and though 

 the species be the same, yet it is rare to meet with 

 good greens ; and of no two edible substances is 

 there a greater difference than subsists between the 

 pale, soft, and deep-fringed leaves we have described, 

 and the dark green or dingy red, hard-ribbed, and 

 leather-apron-like foliage of a common kale-yard. 

 After early potatoes or peas have been removed, 

 set the plants prepared as above, in rows two feet 

 wide by eighteen inches. The ground being well 

 dug will require no manure after potatoes, but a 

 little after peas or such crops as have been raised 

 without previous manure. Should the stems, from 

 the proximity of a wall or scarcity of air, get too 

 high, the whole crop may be lifted in October, in 

 order to be plunged up to the neck by a fresh dig- 

 ging, or laid in a slope, so that the heads may rest 

 on the ground. This prevents the subsiding of a 

 snow-wreath from carrying the leaves before it, 

 which it does in the case of tall stocks, leaving 

 nothing but bare poles. By this method the kale 

 will stand any winter, and may be dug out from 

 beneath the snow entire, and so tender as to melt 

 in the mouth. Salt to kale is proverbial ; and at 

 a season when powdered meat is not heating to the 

 nerves, its union with well boiled pulpy greens gives 

 a relish which nothing at a king's table might im- 

 prove. 



Horse Eadish Is as facile of growth as docks ; 



