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BORECOLE. 



Green Curled Borecole 

 Red Curled Borecole 

 Scotch Curled Borecole 

 Anjou Cabbage, or Tallest Bore- 

 cole 

 Milan Borecole 

 Brussels Sprouts 



rp H E Borecoles are all hardy greens of the 

 cabbage tribe ; but not cabbaging, the 

 heads remaining open and loofe, growing 

 with tall upright items, two, or three, to 

 four, or five feet high, crowned by a large 

 open head of fimbriated curled leaves, moil 

 hardy to ftand the Winter, are moilly bien- 

 nial plants, all raifed from feed every year in 

 the Spring, planted out in Summer and 

 Autumn, come in for ufe from September, 

 or October, till February, gathering the 

 heads for open colewort greens, which boil 

 exceedingly green and tender, and the ilems 

 remaining produce many fine fide fprouts. 



But of the different kinds, the firic two 

 forts, and the Scotch borecole are preferable 

 for the main crops, and deferve culture in 

 every kitchen garden for their fingular hardi- 

 nefs to rtand the Winter, and being excellent 

 boiling greens in that Icafon ; the anjou fort 

 grows very large, and not lb good to boil; 

 theBrufiels fprouts are of a perennial nature in 



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