CHAPTER X 



VEGETABLES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES OR 

 STEMS — COLE CROPS 



The cole crops are the cabbage tribes, particularly those 

 grown for the leaves or leafy or head-like parts, as cabbage, 

 cauliflower, kale, brussels sprouts, and others. These 

 all require cool weather for best development and they 

 withstand considerable frost at the proper season. The 

 seeds are globular or nearly so, black or blackish, and 

 germinate quickly. 



CABBAGE 



This hardy vegetable is grown in Florida and along the 

 Gulf Coast as a winter or cool-season crop. In this way it 

 escapes more or less the many insect enemies which would 

 attack it during the hot season. It is perhaps the common- 

 est temperate vegetable grown in the West Indies and 

 India during the cool season for the benefit of immigrants 

 from colder climates. It matures in three to five months, 

 according to climate and variety. 



The season for marketing cabbage from Florida is not 

 long, because the Maine and Nova Scotia cabbage will 

 keep until March or April, while the spring crop of North 

 Georgia and South Carolina begins to reach market in 

 June. In some years the northern crop is small, and in 

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