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climate ; the common will grow anywhere, and needs 

 no skill for its cultivation. Reaching to the height 

 of four or five feet, it is very ornamental ; and it is 

 readily propagated by offsets. 



French Beans. See Kidney Beans. 



Garlic Not designed for food to man in a state 

 of society; and hermits, if they choose, may find 

 enough of it growing wild in the woods and glens 

 which they naturally frequent. 



Kale. Nobody could be troubled with all the 

 varieties of kale. Some tall sorts, yielding a succes- 

 sion of leaves, while they grow to four or five feet 

 in height, are good for cows; but the dwarf curled is 

 the only one which it is worth while to plant in the 

 garden for the use of the table. It is remarkably 

 tender, and has this quality in proportion to the pale- 

 ness of green and the degree of curl which adorns its 

 leaf. Such is the plaiting of its edges, that the leaf 

 of the best specimens resembles a sponge, and is fully 

 as thick as it is broad. Choose such a stock, and 

 save the seed, which will serve for many years. As 

 this vegetable loses much of its delicacy when raised 

 from plants that have stood the previous winter, it is 

 soon enough to sow in April or March. As soon 

 as the seedlings show the curl of the leaf, thin them 

 well out, or transplant a portion, setting them a 

 handbreadth asunder, in order to preserve the dwarf 

 quality and avoid long stems taking care also to 

 select the plants, for the parent stock does not uni- 

 formly yield seed after its kind. 



Nothing can be easier than this attention to the 

 growing of kale; and there is nothing in which the 

 advantage of high breeding is more discernible. 



