February, 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



23 



it, as that gives it a sort of "cooked" flavor, 

 but let it stand in cold salt-and-water or 

 vinegar-and-water for twenty minutes or so, 

 after which wash thoroughly. To boil, 

 have a large saucepan full of boiling water. 

 To each half gallon of water allow one table- 

 spoonful of salt and a heaped teaspoonful 

 of sugar. Soda can be used, either bicarbon- 

 • ate or even plain washing soda. The purpose 

 is to soften the water, and the sugar does 

 this without the danger of making it slimy 

 or soapy, as too much soda is likely to do. 

 Boil all greens with the lid of the kettle off. 

 This makes a wonderful difference in the 

 appearance of the vegetables. Boiling with 

 the lid on darkens the color; boiling with the 

 lid off keeps the color fresh and bright. 

 When draining cabbage be careful to press 

 out all the water with a presser or saucer. 



VARIETIES FOR THE 



HOME GARDEN 



Name 



Early 



. Late 



Cabbage 



E. Jersey Wakefield 

 E. Winningstadt 

 Extra E. Express 

 E. Stonehead 

 E. Summet 

 Burpee's All-Head 



Succession, All Seasons 

 Large Wakefield Late 

 Stonehead Premium Flat 



Dutch 

 Fettler's Brunswick 

 Surehead, Volga, Autumn 



King 



Savoys 



Ulm, Very Early 

 Paris 



Perfection Drumhead 



Red'pickling 



Dwarf Blood Red 



Red Flat Dutch 



Cauliflower 



Snowball, First and 



Best 

 Best Early 



Dwarf Erfurt, Algiers 

 Autumn Mammoth 



Broccoli 



Early White — E. 

 Purple 



Walcheren — Pur- 

 ple Cape 



Late Queen Champion 



Brussels 

 sprouts 



Dwarf — Sutton's 

 Matchless, Dalkeith 



Dwarf Gem 



Fall 



Long Is. Improved 



Cabbage should be drained in the colander 

 and then pressed hard and cut across and 

 across before serving. Long strings and 

 large leaves of cabbage are unsightly and 

 unappetizing on the plate. Also cabbage 

 swimming in greenish water is disgusting. 

 Brussels sprouts, cauliflowers, and broccoli 

 should be drained in the colander also, but 

 cannot be pressed dry, as that would break 

 them. Serve cauliflower or broccoli with 

 drawn butter sauce. 



Brussels sprouts are boiled the same way 

 as cabbage, and served very hot with plain 

 melted butter, pepper, and salt. These 

 look well if piled in a pyramid on the vege- 

 table dish, but any arrangement must be 

 made very quickly; as the sprouts are so 

 small they cool rapidly. 



Red cabbage is never served boiled, as 

 the color is so disgusting; as a pickle witli 

 vinegar, however, it is much esteemed, and 

 the brilliance of color is delightful. It can 

 .also be stewed and served masked in sauce, 

 when it becomes the correct accompaniment 

 to partridge. The Chinese cabbage, or 

 Pe-tsai, seem to be principally stalk; it 

 looks somewhat like a cos lettuce, and is 

 good for growing in mild climates. It is 

 milder flavored than the European cabbage, 

 and can therefore be eaten raw as a salad, or 

 cooked. Boiled, minced, and served with 

 butter it is delicate and somewhat like 

 boiled endive. 



The uses for the different members of 

 the family are: 



Cabbage and Savoy: Plain boiled, soups, 

 hot or cold slaw, salad, sauerkraut, stuffed 

 and boiled, etc. 



Kale leaves are gathered as wanted over a long 

 season, the head not being cut off 



Red cabbage: Pickles and stews. 



Cauliflower and broccoli: Soups, entrees, 

 and pickles. 



Brussels sprouts: Boiled as an accompani- 

 ment to meat. Stewed with gravy as an 

 entree. Made into fritters with batter. 



Coleworts, kale, borecole, collards: Are 

 generally served plain boiled, without sauce. 

 Can be added to spring soups. 



English Effects with Hardy Trees — By wilhelm Miller, ?s 



THE TWO FALSE GODS WE WORSHIP — THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH WE CAN GET THE 

 BEST ENGLISH EFFECTS, AND THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH WE CAN SURPASS ENGLAND 



[Editor's Note. — This is the second of a series of twelve articles on the materials of gardening, while the companion series in Country Life in America is devoted to 

 styles of gardening. Both are the result of an extended visit to England made by the author last year.] 



I DO not blame the hundred thousand 

 Americans who annually visit England 

 for desiring to duplicate the best English 

 tree effects. For the English landscape 

 possesses more luxuriance and mellowness 

 than ours, and this is largely due to the 

 tree growth, since trees grow taller and live 

 longer than other plants. Also, I am 

 sorry when cultured people plant English 

 trees and they die. But I believe we are 

 wholly mistaken in throwing the blame for 

 such failures on our methods, when the real 

 defect is in our spirit. The trouble is we 

 worship two false gods — Speed and Show. 

 For instance, we Americans have an 

 insane passion for shade by the speediest 

 and cheapest route. The only method we 

 can conceive is to plant "fast growers." 

 Yet there are two better methods, one of 

 which is actually quicker, while the other 

 is cheaper in the end. It is legitimate to 

 alternate silver maples or box elders with 

 long-lived trees, but even this is usually a 

 bad plan, for some one will lack the sense 



or courage to chop down the temporary 

 trees before they injure the permanent 

 ones. And every time we plant fast-grow- 

 ing trees only, as most of us do, we are sure 

 to reap disappointment, for they are bound 

 to die or become unsightly at an early age. 

 Again, we may be quite unconscious that 

 we worship Show, but we do. For we go 

 about our friends' country places admiring 

 their golden elders, weeping hemlocks, 

 cut-leaved maples, and other "horticultural 

 varieties." These things do not exist in 

 Nature but are, in a sense, creations of the 

 nurserymen. They are like jewelry or 

 spice or slang — to be used in moderation, 

 but we ordinarily make them the dominant 

 features of our home grounds. I believe 

 that the readers of The Garden Maga- 

 zine are not immoderately fond of loud 

 clothes, cheap jewelry, rag-time, or slang, 

 but the trees Americans plant most are 

 analogous to these things. We can never 

 achieve the mellowness of the English land- 

 scape by such a route. For, even at their best 



horticultural varieties are transitory and 

 undignified compared with their prototypes. 

 They make for restlessness, not repose. 



If I could deliver to the American people 

 a golden treasure-box containing the most 

 precious thought that England has to give 

 her sister about her trees, that thought 

 might be expressed somewhat as follows: 

 The most valuable quality in any landscape 

 is mellowness, and this can be attained only 

 when long-lived tree are in the majority. 

 Two thousand years of change have made 

 the English people enthusiastic lovers of 

 enduring things. A thousand years from 

 now the Americans will have the same spirit 

 and America will be quite as mellow as 

 England. For half the trees one can then 

 see in any direction will be a century or 

 more old. And they will not be the trees we 

 now plant by the million, such as poplars, 

 willows, soft maples, and others. They will 

 be oaks, beeches, lindens, and the like, for 

 slow-growing trees are the only ones that can 

 achieve great age and stature. Our job, as 





