V. CALABASH, CALE. 



the crop of seed. For a garden, two or three plants are 

 sufficient j but great care should be taken that they stand 

 not near to any thing of the cabbage, or broccoli or cau- 

 liflower kind that is in bloom at the same time. 



130. CALABASH. This is a species of crooked 

 squash, good for nothing as food, but is a very curious 

 thing, having a large and long shell, small in one part 

 and big in the other, and, when the big part is scooped 

 out, becomes a ladle with a long handle to it. A thing 

 very well worth growing for the curiosity, and grown in 

 exactly the same manner as the squash. 



131. CALE or KALE. By some called Borecole. This 

 is a species of cabbage which is used in winter only. It 

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

 and numerous side-shoots, particularly after the top is 

 taken off. It is a very hardy plant, resists all frosts j but 

 it is, at the same time, but a coarse sort of thing. It is 

 to be sowed in the month of April, the plants treated in 

 the same way as that of the cabbage ; the distances at 

 which it is finally planted about two feet each way. 

 There are two sorts, one a bright green, and the leaf 

 very much curled, and the other of a reddish brown co- 

 lour, and not curled at all. The green is generally 

 thought the best j but, as the green savoy will stand the 

 weather if sowed rather later in the year than mentioned 

 under the head of CABBAGE, full as well as the Gale will, 

 there really seems to be very little reason for troubling 

 one's self with this very coarse vegetable ; for, it is ridi- 

 culous to seek a variety in getting bad things to take 

 their turn with good. 



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