. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 153.—Silver Beet, A dlatn. F«=- iS4-Soirel, \ diam. France than in England. They are perennial plants of the Rhubarb race, and may be propagated by dividing the root. They may also be propagated by seed sown half an inch deep and the rows fifteen inches apart. -Sorrel likes a rich, good soil. THE CABBAGE TRIBE. The Cabbage tribe {Brassica oleracea capitatd) are important, as in one form or another they are in use all the year round. There are many varieties of the
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 153.—Silver Beet, A dlatn. F«=- iS4-Soirel, \ diam. France than in England. They are perennial plants of the Rhubarb race, and may be propagated by dividing the root. They may also be propagated by seed sown half an inch deep and the rows fifteen inches apart. -Sorrel likes a rich, good soil. THE CABBAGE TRIBE. The Cabbage tribe {Brassica oleracea capitatd) are important, as in one form or another they are in use all the year round. There are many varieties of the common cabbage. The largest is the Drumhead, chiefly used for cattle. The smallest is the Little Pixie or the Early York. Intermediate sizes are to be obtained in the Cocoa-nut (fig. 155), Enfield Market, Battersea, and Nonpareil. The red cabbage, although used chiefly for'pickling, is a good culinary vegetal, and a partridge with red cabbage is no bad dish for an epicure. We usually sow in January, in the orchard-house, the seed of red cabbage and of one or two other kinds of cabbages. We sow again in March, and again in August, although the orchard-house-sown may take the place of the August- sown ones. We grow also a collard which is extremely liardy, and which has been selected over a period of years ; it is very difficult to seed, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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