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land ; the Tall purple from Messrs. Wrench & Son as Brown 
Borecole. 
Jersey Kale. 
This is also called Cesarean cow-cahhage, Tree-cahhage and Jersey 
Borecole. It is a tall-growing plant, attaining the height of four 
or five feet, the stem clothed with long broad glaucous green leaves 
with long foot-stalks. In spring it throws out numerous long 
slender shoots, with which cattle are fed. It is never grown as a 
garden vegetable. 
Long Scotch Kale. 
This was received from Mr. William Grorrie, of Edinburgh, as the 
true " Long Scotch kale." It is the normal form of the wild cab- 
bage as it is found on the Dorsetshire coast. It was sent by 
Messrs. Vilmorin & Co. under the name of Couve murciana — and by 
Messrs. Sutton & Son, of Buckman's hardy winter greens. 
Marrow Kale. 
This is the Chou moellier of the Trench, a form of the Jersey kale 
which produces a long thickly swollen stem like a gigantic cigar, 
the swollen part being filled with a mass of tender pith. There are 
three varieties of the marrow kale, distinguished as the white^ the 
purple, and the small. The white grows from four to four and a half 
feet high, the stem being smallest at both ends and thickest in 
the middle, where it is about a foot in circumference in the largest 
specimens. 
Milan Kale. 
The name by which this is often called is Choit^ de Milan, It is 
unfortunate that it is so ; for Chou de Milan is the name given by the 
French to Savoys, Except that they both belong to the same., 
genus, there is no resemblance whatever between the Milan kale 
and a Savoy. The Milan kale produces a stock from eighteen 
inches to two feet high, clothed with plane bluntly toothed leaves, 
and terminated by a close, rosette of leaves forming a small inci- 
pient head. In spring it throws out a large quantity of fine suc- 
culent shoots, which, when cooked, form one of the most delicious 
dishes of the winter-green class ; and it is from this circumstance 
that the plant has be n called Asparagus kale. 
