AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 147 



KALE OR BORECOLE. 

 French, Chou Vert. — German, Gnine Kohl. — Spanish, Breton sin Caheza. 



GREEN CURLED. PURPLE CURLED. 



Kale, or l3orecole, if raised at all, should be sown and treat- 

 ed precisely as winter cabbage. 



It is a species of cabbage that does not head, but grows up 

 with a considerable mass of leaves, which are very much curl- 

 ed. It is very hardy, enduring the rigors of the severest win- 

 ter with a slight covering, and in the spring its young sprouts 

 ai'e used for greens. See Greens, page l-±3. 



It is much used by some northern nations as an ingredient 

 in a kind of soup, particularly the green variety. 



It is a rank, coarse vegetable, that is utterly unfit to use un- 

 til thorough freezing has destroyed a portion of its acrid 

 strength, and is only fit for regions where no other cabbage 

 can be successfully raised or wintered. 



There is a dwarf and less curled variety, largely used as 

 greens among the German residents of our cities, and known 

 as German Kale. It is sown thickly, in Septcml^er, in drills a 

 foot apart, and, being kept clean through the fall, with a very 

 slight covering of litter or evergreen brush, and sometimes 

 without any covering, stands through the winter, and in the 

 spring, after it has grown a few inches, the whole plant is cut 

 up for use. 



KOHL RABI, OR TURNIP CABBAGE, 



French, Chou Natet. — German, Kohl Rahi. Tiber Erde Kohl Rahi. — Span- 

 ish, Col de Rahi. 



This, like the former, if raised at all, should be sown and 

 treated in its cultivation as winter cabbage, which see, page 

 128. 



It is properly a turnip mounted upon a stem, or, rather, 

 formed hy the enlargement of the stem near its crown, the 

 leaves which form the crown of the plant Ijeing thrown out im- 

 mediately above and partially upon the swelling which forms 

 the edible product. 



