i6o THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Tall Purple Borecole, Tall Purple Kale, or Purple Winter 

 Greens. — This plant resembles the Tall Green Curled Kale in 

 everything save the colour of its leaves, v^hich are of a very deep 

 violet-red hue. 



Dwarf Purple Curled Borecole. — A sub-variety of the preceding 

 kind, growing only from i6 to 20 in. high. When it is grown true 

 to name, the leaves are almost black, and it contrasts very 

 strikingly with that of the Green Curled Kale, which it equals 

 in hardiness. 



Variegated Borecole, or Garnishing Kale.— Stem from 20 in. 

 to 2j ft. high ; leaves divided, slashed, curled, and undulated, like 



those of the preceding 

 varieties, but variegated, 

 especially after frost, 

 either with green, red, 

 or lilac on a white 

 ground, or with red on 

 a green ground. Several 

 of these forms can be 

 raised individually from 

 seed, especially the 

 Red Variegated and the 

 White Variegated Kale. 

 All these kinds are very 

 ornamental, and in 

 winter very pretty beds 

 can be made with them 

 in the open ground, 

 while the leaves may 

 also be found useful for 

 garnishing the dinner- 

 table. They will bear 

 very severe frosty 

 weather, if they have 

 not previously suffered 

 from an excess of mois- 



Variegated Borecole, or Garnishing Kale. ^Ure. In growing them, 



when the plants are 

 sufficiently large, transplant them into poor soil in an open situation. 

 In autumn, select the most beautiful, and, breaking off the large 

 under-leaves, plant sufficiently deep to bring the head close to the 

 surface of the soil. 



Georgia Collards. — The Cabbage, as we remarked at the 

 beginning, is a plant which properly belongs to cold and temperate 

 climates, and accordingly, amongst cultivated varieties, we find but 

 very few which can endure the summer heat of warm latitudes. 



