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| 708 History of Garden Vegetables. 
~ blistered and curled. 
_ they are very efficient. The stalks are often very b 
` with red. The forms now found are described by their nat 
-Crimson-Veined Brazilian, Golden-Veined Brazilian, 9@ 
-is the parent of the broad-stalked forms, and, judging from 
CURLED Swiss CHARD. 
Curled-Leaf Beet. Burr, 1863, 291. 
Beck's Seakale Beet. Gard. Chron., 1865. 
Potrée à carde blanche frisée. Vilm., 1883. 
Evidently a form of the Swiss, the stalks broader, the le e aes 
Cuitan BEET. E 
This form is usually grown for ornamental purposes, or ic l 
twisted, and the colors very clear and distinct, the leaf pucke i l 
and blistered as in the Curled Swiss.. In the Gardeners’ Chron 
(1844) it is said that thesé ornamental plants were introduced t l 
Belgium some ten or twelve years previously. “It is yellow , 
red, and varies in all the shades of these two colors.” In 19% 
J. Bauhin? speaks of two kinds of chard as novelties, —the 
white, with broad ribs; the other, red. He also speaks | 
_yellow form, differing from the kind with a boxwood-yellow t 
In 1655, Lobel? describes a chard with yellowish stems, VA 
` Ribbed =r Scarlet-Veined Brazilian, Yellow-Ribbed Ch 
-Red-Stalked, 
The sce Di are the broad- leaved ones, and all 
instances, but some seed. Bash an experience y ” 
which Gerarde records. It seems plausible that B. mari 
is the parent form of the narrow-ribbed varieties, aid B. 
ogy, as well as by the descriptions of the wild plant, 
types of all the colors, and the smooth and bliste! 
leaves, probably can be found in nature. 
* Gard. Chron., 1844, 59: 
Lobel, 2 J. Bauhin, Hist. 1651, ile 
Pamela anor 1655, 8, aS 
