. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MUSTARD FAMILY the loveliest ornaments of the cliffs. Much of it is verdant when all around is fading; and dark, purplish, red-tinted leaves mingle with those which are green, and with others which are of deepest yellow, and when the hoar-frost spangles them they seem enriched with glittering diamonds. " The leaves have a salt and bitter flavor, but repeated washings will fit this cabbage for use, and when boiled it is a good vegetable. Boys occasionally gather it
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MUSTARD FAMILY the loveliest ornaments of the cliffs. Much of it is verdant when all around is fading; and dark, purplish, red-tinted leaves mingle with those which are green, and with others which are of deepest yellow, and when the hoar-frost spangles them they seem enriched with glittering diamonds. " The leaves have a salt and bitter flavor, but repeated washings will fit this cabbage for use, and when boiled it is a good vegetable. Boys occasionally gather it from the cliff and carry it into the town for sale, but it does not seem to be much used in the neighborhood either by rich or poor. " This Sea Cabbage, small as it is, with its few scattered leaves is important as hav- ing been the origin of all the wiidCabbi. Brisska oieracca giant and Small cabbages, both white and red, of savoys and Brussels sprouts, and delicate cauliflowers and broccoli, and all the varieties of greens which the gardener raises with so much care. None who looked at it as it grew on the cliff would have believed that culture could have wrought such changes; but from earliest days it has received cultivation. "We know that the ancients had a ciu-led cabbage; they, there- fore, probably, dined sometimes on broccoli. Our cauliflower was brought from the Levant into Italy about the sixteenth cen- tury, and gradually found its way into England. " The Wild Cabbage grows on the sea cliffs of several parts of the shores of Europe and other wild cabbages grow on more distant shores. The cabbage plant, too, is a frequent object of culture in the East. Mr. Fortune, in his 'Wanderings in China,' says that one of the cabbage tribe, Brassica chinensis, is extensively culti- vated in the province of Chekiang and also in ; Field Turnip, Brassica campislris, has been cultivated, since Roman times, for its fleshy roots. The flowering stem is abo
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