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THE KOHL-RABI CROP. 



this tendency in a different form from any of the pre- 

 ceding plants; in this it is seen only in the enormous 

 development of the base of the leaf-stalks, whose tissues 

 are- increased to such a degree as to cause the stem to 

 assume quite the appearance of a bulb, which begins to be 

 formed at an inch or two above the surface, where the first 

 leaves are attached to the stem. 



There are two distinct (?) varieties of kohl-rabi culti- 

 vated, the Purple and the Green, and these are both met 

 with in an oblong and in a globular form. The purple is 



No. 1, 



No. 2 



KOHL-RABI. 1. Round Variety. 2. Oblong Variety. 



considered the hardier variety, and better fitted generally 

 for field culture, and the oblong shape is preferred to 

 the globular, which is more frequently met with in the 

 garden, where the green variety more particularly is 



is seen in a new variety of broccoli, just introduced by Messrs. Lee, of Hammer- 

 smith, the centre head of which is surroiinded by from thirty to fifty subordinate 

 heads, all of good size, and each exhibiting the same development of the flower- 

 stalk, and possessing the same culinary value as the centre. 



