. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. .10 .20 .15 .15 .20 per ot, Svr'isH Chard, or Silver. This variety is cultivated for its leaf-stalks, which are 9^^ served up much like Asparagus, and for its leaves cooked as Spinach. If S* cut often, new stalks will be reproduced. Per pkt., .5 10 Pei|<etual Spinach. Leaves large, of good color; flavor superior to Spinach, for which it is used as a substitute. In use the whole season. Per pkt., .5 . BOR
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. .10 .20 .15 .15 .20 per ot, Svr'isH Chard, or Silver. This variety is cultivated for its leaf-stalks, which are 9^^ served up much like Asparagus, and for its leaves cooked as Spinach. If S* cut often, new stalks will be reproduced. Per pkt., .5 10 Pei|<etual Spinach. Leaves large, of good color; flavor superior to Spinach, for which it is used as a substitute. In use the whole season. Per pkt., .5 . BORECOLE, or KALE (BR,visicA Acephauv). German, Blatter Kohl. â French, Chou vert.â Spanish, Bvelon. Borecole, German Greens, or Scotch Kale, is a very delicate vegetable. It is essential to its perfection that it be acted upon by the frost before it is cut lor the kitchen. The part used are the tops or crowu ot the plant, with any of the side sprouts. It boils well, and is tender and sweet. Culture. â The seeds are âwn at the time of sowing the seeds of the Cabbage or Cauliflower, and in the same m .^ner: early plants may be started in a hotbed, or the seed may be sown in the open ground in May. In transjjlanting, treat the plants same as young cabbages, setting them more oi less remote, according to the size or habit of the variety. Requires a light, rich soil. per oz. Abergeldie. A dwarf-curled Kale, of extreme beauty, good color, delicate mellow flavor, and as double as a fine curled Parsley. This is a valuable winter green,and will be found a very useful aud liaudsome garnish. Per pkt., 10 Dwarf Curled Kale, or German Greens. This is a hardy, low-growing variety; finely curled. A fine variety for winter and spring use wliea in a light cellar, or other protection from the severity of tlie weather. Per pkt., 5 Tall Green Curled. A fine liardy and productive variety. Per ])kt, 5 . . Cottager's Kale. It is exceedingly hardv, of excellent flavor, and verv pr
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