THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Small Belleville Savoy Cabbage. 



rosette of leaves rather than a head, properly so called, and it 

 is considered not inferior to that variety in the markets. 



Small Belleville Savoy Cabbage.— Stem short, head firm and 



rounded, outer leaves dark 

 and much crimped and 

 spreading on the ground. 

 It stands the frost well, 

 a thin coating of snow 

 sufficing for its protec- 

 tion. In this, and also 

 in being quicker to head, 

 it is much superior to 

 the Limay Savoy, which 

 it resembles. Like the 

 Limay Savoy, it may be 

 sown in June for use after the Vertus Savoy, from late in the 

 autumn to the end of winter. It is largely grown for the Paris 

 markets. 



Norwegian Savoy Cabbage. — This kind has the leaves so little 

 crimped that it might almost be taken for an ordinary Smooth- 

 leaved Cabbage. The stem is fairly long, and the leaves numerous, 

 stiff, and standing well up about the head, which is round, small, 

 and very late to form. All the leaves, in winter, become red or 

 violet. This Cabbage is dis- 

 tinguishable in appearance 

 from the Vaugirard Cabbage 

 only by its longer stem and 

 somewhat more numerous 

 leaves. It is the latest of 

 the Savoys, and will bear 

 the hardest frosts. 



In Belgium there is a 

 coarsely crimped variety of 

 Savoy grown under the name 



of Chou de Mai or Chou d -kt • o lu , ^ ^ • \ 



7 ^ , 7., t*- Norwegian Savoy Cabbage natural size). 



irois tetes {^Drie-Kropper), the 



head of which is formed by the leaves being twisted, instead of 

 folded or wrapped over one another in the ordinary way. It is 

 sown in August, and planted out either before, during, or after 

 winter, coming in the following May. After the head is cut, the 

 plant produces two or three small secondary heads in the axils of 

 the lower leaves. 



In the London market-gardens seed is sown in March, and the 



Savoys are not so much esteemed plants are put out under fruit-trees, 



as Cabbage, but they are largely or in similar positions in the same 



cultivated by some growers. The way as Cabbages. The varieties 



