A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom; . - different from those grown in this favourite variety, Peh-tsai, or Shantung cabbage, as. %^- AGRICULTURE 57 foreigners have styled it, is more like a huge cos lettuce thana cabbage. This kind is grown everywhere, but attains itsgreatest perfection in the colder parts of China. In theYangtsze VaUey it is best when grown as a winter crop. Anotherstriking variety is the white-ribbed cabbage, Kin-ta
A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom; . - different from those grown in this favourite variety, Peh-tsai, or Shantung cabbage, as. %^- AGRICULTURE 57 foreigners have styled it, is more like a huge cos lettuce thana cabbage. This kind is grown everywhere, but attains itsgreatest perfection in the colder parts of China. In theYangtsze VaUey it is best when grown as a winter crop. Anotherstriking variety is the white-ribbed cabbage, Kin-ta-tsai,which is said to be peculiar to Szechuan. In addition tothese some half-dozen other varieties are cultivated. Cabbagesare eaten fresh or are preserved by salting and drying in thesun. From a European standpoint none is worth growing,being so very inferior in flavour to our own. The RomanCatholic priests have introduced the common Europeancabbage, but though its culture has spread widely the Chinesemuch prefer their own varieties. While the Chinese cabbagesare all really referable to Brassica campestris, it is convenientto group them under B. ckinensis. As a winter crop greenkale, Kan-kan-tsai, and dark-red kale, Tsai-tai arecultivated through the Yangtsze Valley. The young sh
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