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Large Ox-heart cabbage (choucceur de bceuf gros), from France j, 

 one of the best kinds cultivated. 



Jilsacian, or Quintal cabbage (chou d'alsace on quintal), from. 

 France, with short thick stalks, and very lai^e heads, having 

 festooned leaves of a very bright green color. The head of this 

 cabbage grows to an enormous size on rich new land. 



Large Red cabb::ge (chou rouge gros), from France. 



Milan Salutary calbage (Chou-Milan des vertus), from FrancBy, 

 the largest of the Milan varieties, which are noted for growing 

 more open, and in being more delicate and less musky in their 

 flavor. It requires a very lich soil. 



London cavliflowery from England, a superior variety. 



Medium cauliflower (Chou-fleur-demi-dur), from France, pos- 

 sessing qualities between the line tender sorts and those which 



Broccoli. — There have been imported from England three va- 

 lieties of Broccoli, the " Mammoth," " Imperial White," and 

 the "Purple Cape," the latter direct from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



Two varieties of Kohl-rabi, or " Turnip-stemmed cabbage," one- 

 from England and the other from France have been introduced. 

 The plant rises in a thick stem about eight inches out of the 

 ground, terminating at the top into a globular form, somewhat 

 like a large Swedish turnip, erowned with leaves slightly scol- 

 loped on their edges, undulated, and of a milk-green color. 

 There are several varieties of it, but the "^ green-stemmed" and 

 the " purple stemmed," especially the latter, are to be preferred. 

 This vegetable is sweeter, more nutritious, and more solid than 

 either the cabbage or white turnip; produces a greater weight 

 per acre than the latter, and prefers a heavier soil than that root ;. 

 It also is hardier, and keeps better than any other bulb, and im- 

 parts, when fed to cows but little of that flavor known as " tur- 

 nipy," either to butter or milk. The seed of this plant may be- 

 sowu at the same period as the Swedish or ruta-baga turnip, anJi 



