cultivated in the Garden of the Society. 565 

 Couve Tronchuda. 



Portugal Borecole. 

 Large Ribbed Borecole. 



For the knowledge of this most valuable vegetable, the 

 country is indebted to the exertions of James Warre, Esq. 

 who at various times obtained the seed from Portugal, and so 

 extensively distributed it, that the plant is getting into culti- 

 vation in all those well cropped gardens where the proprietor 

 or the gardener is anxious about his esculents. This Cabbage is 

 of a character entirely new to English gardens ; but the French 

 have a class which they call Choux a grosses cotes and Choux 

 a larges cotes, which belong to the Brassica costata (Large 

 Ribbed Cabbage) of M. De Candolle, * and the Couve 

 Tronchuda has much resemblance to their Chou vert a larges 

 cotes. The first introduction of it by Mr. Warre was in 

 1821, when he presented seeds of it to the Horticultural 

 Society. The stalk is short and thick ; the outer leaves are 

 very large, roundish, of a dark bluish green, rugose on the 

 surface and slightly undulated ; the costa or midrib of the 

 leaf is large, thick, and nearly white, branching into veins of 

 the same colour. The plant forms a loose open head, and 

 when full grown is nearly two feet in height. A Cabbage of 

 inferior quality has occasionally been received from Portugal 

 under the same name, which runs into flower rapidly without 

 attaining any size, and is in no way productive or useful. 

 The genuine sort is much grown about Braganza, and the 

 name of that town is often attached to the variety now 



• Sec Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 12. 



