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The roots of this variety are used both in soups and for early spring salads: it is cultivated by sowing the seeds in March; and the roots are usually kept all winter. The white beet is only a variety of the other; and it is the tops that are usually eaten of this kind as a substitute for spinach. Its culture is the same as that of the red kind. BORECOLE. Brassica Rapa.
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.
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.
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!
My treatise on the cabbage would hardly be complete without some allusion to such prominent members of the Brassica family as the cauliflower, broccoli, brussels-sprouts, and kale. ~Cauliflower.~ Wrote the great Dr. Johnson: "Of all the flowers of the garden, give me the cauliflower."
The lizards, which spend most of their time in the grasshoppers' company, appear equally capable of resisting fire. In the bed of the Alzou a species of brassica has had time since the last flood to grow up from the seed, and to spread its dark verdure in broad patches over the dry sand and pebbles. The ravens are gone to Auvergne, so it is said, because they do not like hot weather.
Farmers find that, as a rule, it is not safe to follow cabbage, ruta baga, or any of the Brassica family, with cabbage, unless three or four years have intervened between the crops; and I have known an instance in growing the Marblehead Mammoth, where, though five years had intervened, that portion of the piece occupied by the previous crop could be distinctly marked off by the presence of club-foot.
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.
And here it may not prove amiss to observe to the botanical student, should he hereafter be destined to travel, that by making himself thus acquainted with the nature of such vegetables, he may have it in his power to render great benefit to society by the introduction of others of still superior virtues, for the use both of man and the brute creation. BRASSICA Napus.
The truffle is mostly found in beech woods: I have mentioned this, because it is very generally met with at table, although it is not in cultivation. TURNEPS. Brassica Rapa. The varieties in use for garden culture are, the Early Dutch, the Early Stone, and the Mouse-tail Turnep. The culture and uses of the turnep are too well known to require any description.
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