62 CABBAGE. 



A well-grown Savoy in the garden is a picture, 

 its rich deep green color, finely netted and regularly 

 imbricated leaves make it the rose of the vegetable 

 garden. Notwithstanding its delicate structure, and 

 tenderness when cooked, it rivals the kale in hardi- 

 ness, and will endure, in field or garden, fifteen or 

 even more degrees of frost, without apparent injury. 

 With but a slight covering of straw, or leaves, which 

 are more for a protection against the sun than the 



Fig. 6 — ^American Drumhead Savoy. 



frost, it can be wintered in the garden, in the latitude 

 of New York, without injury. Like the Brussels 

 sprouts and kale, the Savoys are greatly benefited 

 by a few degrees of frost. 



The Savoys cannot be well grown as early or 

 intermediate sorts in this latitude ; they do not thrive 

 in the hot weather of July and August, but make 

 their best growth from the middle of September until 

 the middle of November. The Early Ulm Savoy 

 comes in moderately early, but it, nor any other of 



