tions of leaves, which are
excellent for fodder, and which may be cut several times during the
season. It is sometimes cultivated for stock; but, as a table vegetable,
is of little value.

FLANDERS KALE. _Thomp._

Chou Caulet de Flanders. _Vil._

This is a sub-variety of the Tree-cabbage, from which it is
distinguished by the purplish color of its foliage. Its height is nearly
the same, and the plant has the same general appearance. It is, however,
considered somewhat hardier.

GREEN MARROW-STEM BORECOLE.

Chou Moellier. _Vil._

Stem green, about five feet high, clavate, or club-formed; thickest at
the top, where it measures nearly two inches, and a half in diameter.
This stem, or stalk, is filled with a succulent pith, or marrow, which
is much relished by cattle; and, for this quality, the plant is
sometimes cultivated. The leaves are large, and nearly entire on the
edges; the leaf-stems are thick, short, white, and fleshy.

It is not so hardy as most of the other varieties. The plants should be
grown about three feet apart in one direction, by two feet or two feet
and a half in the opposite.

LANNILIS BORECOLE.

Chou de Lannilis. _Vil._ Lannilis Tree-cabbage.

Stem five feet high, thicker and shorter than that of the Cow or Tree
Cabbage; leaves long, entire on the borders, pale-green, and very thick
and fleshy. The leaf-stems are also thicker and shorter than those of
the last-named varieties.

The stalk is largest towards the top, and has the form of that of the
Marrow-stem. It sometimes approaches so near that variety, as to be
scarcely distinguishable from it.

NEAPOLITAN BORECOLE. _Trans._

Neapolitan Curled Kale. Chou frise de Naples. _Vil._

The Neapolitan Borecole is remarkable for its peculiar manner of growth,
but is hardly worthy of cultivation as a table vegetable, or even for
stock. The stem is short and thick, and terminates in an oval bulb,
somewhat in the manner of the Kohl Rabi. From all parts of this bulb are
put forth 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 number of white veins,
nearly covering the whole 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 numer