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In two months it will be fit to bottle. COLEWORT. Brassica oleracea var. This is a small variety of the common cabbage, which is sown in June, and planted out for autumn and winter use.
These are usually sown in March, and planted for a winter crop. The use and qualities of the cabbage are too well known to need any further description. CAULIFLOWER. Brassica oleracea var. The varieties are, The Early. The Late. The early cauliflower is sown in the first week in September, and usually sheltered under bell or hand glasses during the winter.
Who, walking on Chester walls in those days, and seeing the Brassica oleracea, where it grows in abundance, would have supposed that from it would spring cabbages as big as drums, and cauliflowers as florid as a bishop's wig? Dov. Or cautiously chaumbering an acrid sloe, imagine it to be the parent of a green gage? Von Os. This is the Education of Vegetables. Dov. The March of Increment!
Among the butterflies, Melitæa Ismeria, in the south, and M. Harrisii, in the north, are sometimes seen. A second brood of Colias Philodice, the common sulphur-yellow butterfly, appears, and Pieris oleracea visits turnip-patches. It lays its eggs in June on the leaves, and the full-grown, dark-green, hairy larva may be found in August.
CABBAGE. Brassica oleracea. The varieties of cabbage are numerous. The most esteemed are, The Early York. The Early Sugar-loaf. The Early Battersea. The Early Russia. They are all sown in August, and planted out for an early summer-crop, and are usually in season in May and June. The Large Battersea. The Red Cabbage. The Green Savoy. The White Savoy.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS. This is a large variety of cabbage, very productive and hardy. The culture is the same as for Cattle-cabbage. BRASSICA oleracea. DRUM-HEAD CABBAGE. This is usually sown in March and the plants put out into beds, and then transplanted into the fields; this grows to a most enormous size, and is very profitable. About four pounds of seed is sufficient for an acre. AVENA sativa.
It is also sometimes used in a similar manner here with apples. Almost all the gourd species are similar in taste and nutriments when used this way. PURSLANE. Portulaca oleracea. Two kinds of Purslane, the green and the golden, are cultivated. These are eaten with vinegar, &c. the same as other salad oils, and are a fine vegetable in warm weather. The seeds are usually sown in the spring.
The leaves of the plant have more acidity in them than the common; and although not in general use, it is one of the best salad-herbs in the early part of the year: it is propagated in the same mode as the common sort. SPINACH, Spinacia oleracea. -Two sorts of this vegetable are cultivated.
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