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BORECOLE, OR KALE. 
BORECOLE, OR KALE. 
Ckou Frise Yert. Brassica oleracea , etc . 
VARIETIES. 
Green Cuiled, or Scotch. 
Dwarf Brown, or German. 
Purple Fringed. 
Jerusalem, or Buda. 
Cesarean Kale. 
Thousand-headed Cabbage 
There are several sub-varieties of this genus of plants 
besides those above specified, most of which have large open 
heads, with curled wrinkled leaves. The Dwarf Curled, or 
Finely Fringed sorts, are much cultivated in Europe for the 
table ; and the coarse and tall-growing are considered pro- 
fitable for cattle. The Thousand-headed Cabbage, and Ce- 
sarean Kale, grow from three to five feet high, and branch 
out from the stem, yielding an abundant supply of leaves 
and sprouts in the winter and spring. 
For the garden, these several varieties may be treated in 
every respect as Winter Cabbage. The seed may be sown 
from about the middle of May to the first week in June, and 
the plants set out in the month of July, in good rich ground 
They are never so delicious as when rendered tender by 
smart frosts ; they are valuable plants to cultivate, particu- 
larly in the more Southerly States, as they will there be in 
the greatest perfection during the winter months ; they will 
also, if planted in a gravelly soil, and in a sheltered warm 
situation, bear the winter of the Western States; and may 
be kept in great perfection in the Eastern States, if taken 
up before the frost sets in with much severity, and placed in 
trenches, up to their lower leaves, and then covered with 
straw” or other light covering : the heads may be cut off 
as they are required for use ; and in the spring, the stems 
being raised up, will produce an abundance of delicious 
greens. 
One ounce of good Borecole seed will produce about four 
thousand plants, and may be sown in a border four feet by 
ten, or thereabout. 
