THE 
Naturalists Iirantal 
A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
Address of Office: 369, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, N.W. 
Vol. II. No 15. SEPTEMBER, 1893. 
Price 2d. 
A GLIMPSE AT THE CABBAGE AND 
SOME CABBAGE EATERS* 
By H. Durrant. 
Part I. The Cabbage and Some Varieties. 
(Continued f rom page 5.9 
t HE Saxons were the first in England to favour the culti¬ 
vation of the cabbage though probably the one they 
grew was merely the wild one of the sea shore, but be 
this as it may, it must have been a great favourite with 
C ^ 
C. Pteromalus puparum (mag.) D. Aphis brassiccs, male (mag.) 
them, even in this poor form—hard, woody, and except in the 
spring, almost uneatable from its very rankness—for so highly 
did they esteem it that the second month ot the year was called 
“ Sprout Kale,” because it was the month in which their princi¬ 
pal and favourite garden vegetable began to grow. 
* Read before the North Kent Entomological and Natural History Society 
on March 1st, 1893. 
