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On the Varieties of Winter Greens. 



dwarf winter greens not being required to attain much 

 size before the winter, ought not to be sown till the middle 

 of May, nor be planted out until July. But it must be 

 remembered, that as the Buda Kale is expected to furnish 

 a supply much longer than most of the others, and until 

 late in the spring, a greater breadth of ground should be 

 allowed for this kind, and that a second plantation of it in 

 August will always be necessary for the late gathering. 



Of the above sorts of vegetables, the Savoys only are sent 

 in abundance to the London market ; with the exception of 

 a small supply of the heads of the Scotch Kale, and the 

 shoots of the German Kale, the rest are never seen in Co- 

 vent Garden. The space which the plants would occupy, 

 as well as the time they continue on the ground, are a bar to 

 their extensive cultivation as a matter of profit. 



In the foregoing account I have not inserted the Colewm% 

 which is mentioned in many of the books on gardening, and 

 was, I suppose, formerly cultivated for winter use, before the 

 introduction of the different greens which I have described. 

 My endeavours to obtain seeds of it were fruitless, and I 

 consider it as quite lost ; from the descriptions of it which 

 I have met with, I apprehend it to have been a variety of 

 the common Cabbage, very hardy, and without disposition 

 to form a heart. A great quantity of young cabbages pretty 

 well grown in size are planted late in autumn, from the seed- 

 bed, in the London market-gardens ; these, though they are 

 called Coleworts, are different sorts of hearting Cabbages 

 (chiefly, I believe, the Imperial Cabbage), which are cut and 

 sent to the market through the winter. Although those 

 leaves of young cabbages, which are produced in the 



