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Cottager's Kale. — A rather variable kind, with green or violet 

 and more or less curled leaves. Its chief merit is its extreme 

 hardiness. 



Egyptian Kale. — A very dwarf variety, which in spring 

 produces great numbers of fleshy shoots, covered with small tender 

 leaves. 



Jerusalem, or Delaware, Kale. — The leaves of this are curled 

 at the edges and of a violet tint. The plant produces shoots in 

 spring, like the preceding kind. 



Milan Kale. — This is a Borecole, and should not be confounded 

 with the French Chou de Milan Savoy. Except that they both 

 belong to the same genus, there is no resemblance whatever 

 between them. The Milan Kale produces a stem from 18 in. to 

 2 ft. high, clothed with plain, bluntly toothed leaves, and terminated 

 by a close rosette of leaves forming a small head. In spring it 

 throws out a quantity of succulent shoots, which, when cooked, 

 is one of the most delicious of winter greens. 



Ragged Jack. — A hardy and productive variety, with long, 

 irregularly cut or slashed leaves, and short, often branching, stem. 



The Gallega Cabbage, of Portugal, is a variety with very large 

 green leaves, which are very much crimped and puffed on the 

 upper surface. It is a good cropper, but sensitive to cold. 



Culture. — The culture of the Cattle-feeding varieties of 

 Cabbage does not come within the scope of this work. We will 

 only say, with respect to such of the Kales or Borecoles as are 

 grown for ornament or table use, that they require the same treat- 

 ment as late ordinary Cabbages and Brussels Sprouts. They are 

 sown in spring in a nursery-bed, the seedlings are pricked out in 

 May, and afterwards finally transplanted in the course of the 

 summer. The crop comes in through the autumn and winter, and 

 sometimes through the whole of the following year. The plants 

 do not run to seed until the spring of the second year after that in 

 which they were sown. 



KOHL-RABI 



Brassica Caulo-rapa, D.C. 



French, Chou-rave. German, Oberkohlrabi. Flemish, Raapkool. Dutch, Koolraapen 

 boven den grond. Danish, Knudekaal. Italian, Cavolo rapa. Spanish, Col 

 rabano. Portuguese, Couve rabano. 



The useful part of this plant is its swollen, fleshy, and pulpy stem. 

 Some cattle-feeding varieties of Cabbages afford examples of 

 enlargements of this kind, but in none of them is the stem so 

 completely swollen or so much altered in appearance. In the 

 Kohl-Rabi, the swelling of the stem, which commences close to the 

 surface of the ground, is almost a ball, the size of which in some 



