By Mr. William Morgan. 



and compact, quite green externally, and only blanched 

 where the parts are excluded from the light. 



The third and last sort of this division is the Yellow Savoy, 

 the peculiar excellence of which is, that by its hardiness it 

 enables us to continue the use of hearted cabbages till mid- 

 winter : it does not yield to either of the others in goodness, 

 and by many persons it is preferred, being considered much 

 sweeter ; when both the other Savoys have perished from 

 severe weather, this will survive, and from its size is fitted 

 to yield a succession to the Green Savoy for the market 

 gardener's use. It is not unlike the Green Savoy in general 

 habit, and size ; but the leaves, though rugose, are much 

 smoother and paler than the other, and the veins are green ; 

 the heart is less compact, though nearly as large, and its co- 

 lour, instead of being a gradation from green to white, is a 

 pale yellow even in the parts exposed to view. What is com- 

 monly sold for the Yellow Savoy, in the shops, is very inferior 

 to that which is now exhibited, but the best I have seen, are 

 in the Royal Gardens at Kew. 



Approaching to the Savoy is the plant producing the 

 Brussells Sprouts; indeed I can consider it as no other 

 than a variety of the Savoy, with an elongated stem, pro- 

 ducing, from the alae of the leaves, shoots which form 

 small green heads like cabbages in miniature, each being 

 from one to two inches in diameter, and the whole ranged 

 spirally along the stem, the main leaves of which drop off 

 early. This spiral appearance is caused by the manner of 

 the insertion of the leaves on the chief stem, which I believe 

 is in this fashion in all the Cabbage tribe, but certainly in 

 the Savoys. The top of the plant resembles that of a 



