E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower &; kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 .10 per oa ^ Swiss Chard, or Silver. This variety is cultivated for its leaf-stalks, which are ^ served up much like Asparagus, and for its leaves cooked as Spinach. If 'il^ cut often, new stalks will be reproduced. Per pkt., .5 10 Peri»enial 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 (Brassica Olekacea Acephala). Ge
E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower &; kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 .10 per oa ^ Swiss Chard, or Silver. This variety is cultivated for its leaf-stalks, which are ^ served up much like Asparagus, and for its leaves cooked as Spinach. If 'il^ cut often, new stalks will be reproduced. Per pkt., .5 10 Peri»enial 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 (Brassica Olekacea Acephala). German, Blatter Kohl. — French, Chou vert.— Spanish, Breton. Borecole, German Greens, or Scotch Kale, is a very delicate vegetable. It is essenrial to its perfection that it be acted upon by the frost before it is cut for the kitchen. The part used are the tops or crown oi the plant, with any of the side sprouts. It boils well, and is tender and sweet. Culture. — The seeds are .^wn 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 vl ^ may be sown in the open grounc' in May. In transplanting, treat the plants same as 3'oung cabbages, setting them more o; less remote, according to the size or habit of the variety. Eequires a light, rich soil. per oz. Ahergeldie. 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 and handsome garnish. Per pkt., 10 .20 Dwarf Curled Kale, or German Greens. This is a hardy, low-gi-owing variety; finely curled. A fine variety for winter and spring use when planted in a light cellar, or other protection from the severity of the weather. Per pkt., 5 ,1C Tall Green Curled. A fine hardy and productive variety. Per pkt., 5 • . . .15 Cottager's Kale. It is exceedingly hardv, of excellent flavor, and verv productive. Per pkt., 10 .
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