568 Report on Remarkable Esculent Vegetables 



Neapolitan Borecole. 



Chou de Naples. 



Chou de Naples /rise nain. 



Cavolo torsolo ricciuto. 



This Cabbage will attract notice more on account of its 

 appearance than its utility. The stem is short and thick, form- 

 ing on its top, a few inches above the ground, a bulb, inclining 

 to oval ; from all parts of the bulb spring numerous erect small 

 leaves, finely curled on their edges. The whole plant does 

 not exceed twenty inches in height ; the leaves are attached 

 to footstalks, six or seven inches long ; they are obovate, 

 smooth on the surface, with an extraordinary quantity of 

 white veins nearly covering the whole of the leaf. The 

 fringed edges are irregularly cut and finely curled, and so 

 extended as nearly to conceal the other parts of the leaf. As 

 the plant gets old, it throws out numerous small branches 

 from the axils of the leaves on the sides of the bulb. Seeds 

 of this curious variety were received from M. Vilmorin of 

 Paris, and were also brought from Italy by Roger Petti- 

 ward, Esq. and presented to the Society. It is not men- 

 tioned in the Bon Jardinier of 1825 or 1826. M. Noisette, 

 in the Manuel Complet du Jardinier, classes it with the 

 Choux-verts (or Greens), but it more properly belongs to the 

 class of Choux-raves (or Turnep Cabbages), and is perhaps 

 the same as the Chou-rave crepu of M. De Candolle,* 

 which he says is cultivated at Naples under the name of 

 Pavonazza. It is too tender to bear the winter of this 

 country, but if sown in March, it continues fit for use during 

 the autumn. It is not however to be put in competition as an 

 useful vegetable with our Scotch Kale, 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 19. 



