74 DICTIOISrAKy OP POPULAR NAMES CABBAGE 



the above are considered to have sprang from the wild cabbage ; 

 but there is no record of when or how they came to assume their 

 respective forms. Some of the varieties are supposed to have 

 been introduced to this country by the Eomans. The cauli- 

 flower and broccoli are recorded to have been cultivated in Prance 

 and Italy in the middle of the sixteenth century. 



Cabbage Bark Tree, a name in the West Indies for Andira 

 inermis, a tree of the Bean family (Leguminosse). Its bark 

 has a very disagreeable smell, and is used as a worm powder, 

 but reqxiires caution in its use, as it is highly narcotic. 



Cabbage, Kerguelen's Land {Pnnglea cmtiscorbuhca), is one 

 of the most remarkable plants of the Cruciferous family. It is 

 a native of the uninhabited and inhospitable island called Ker- 

 guelen's Land; situated in the Southern Ocean 48° S., where it is 

 a most conspicuous plant, and where only it is found. It closely 

 resembles the common cabbage, being nearly as large, having a 

 firm head and white heart. It is found in great abundance, and 

 is highly valuable as a vegetable to the crews of ships touching 

 there. It is chiefly distinguished from cabbage by the nature 

 of its seed-vessels and seeds. 



Cabbage Palm {Areca oleraced), a Common palm of the 

 West Indies. It has a slender stem, and grows to a great 

 height. This and others of the same nature are called Cabbage 

 Palms on account of their young unexpanded leaves being used 

 as a vegetable. To obtain this insignificant morsel these noble 

 trees, some a hundred years old, and 100 feet high, have to be 

 cut down. 



FtycJiospemm (Seaforthia) elegans is the cabbage palm of 

 New South Wales ; it, with the elegant Tan Palm {Livistona 

 amtralis), Tree Ferns, Cedar (Cedrela), Gigantic Nettle, and 

 other remarkable trees of tropical aspect, formed the primeval 

 forests of the lUawarra district of New South Wales ; and 

 although a hundred years have not passed since first seen by 

 civilised man, they are now fast disappearing ; remnants only 

 remaining in places where the plough has not reached. 



Cacao. (See Chocolate Nut.) 



