A Neglected Vegetable

Kale or Borecole is rarely found in American home gardens and but little known outside of cities with a large foreign population. Yet Orchard and Garden affirms that "it deserves to be quite generally cultivated, being much hardier than cabbage and fnrnishing most excellent greens during winter and early spring. Plantsof the Germán and Scotch varieties should be set out in August and early September. Kale makes a quick growth, and being so hardy grows on until late. It may be planted out after early potatoes or other first crops, set three feet apart each way and cultivated like cabbage. lts flavor is greatly improved by f rost, and in England and Scotland we have seen it stand out bright and green all winter without protection. It is strange that it is not better known and more largely used in this country where spinach and other 'greens' are in popular dernand."