Hastings' seeds : fall 1914 catalogue . Hastings Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant BORECOLE OR KALE FOR WINTER GREENS We sincerely wish we could get our friends to grow Kale more extensively, as it is somuch superior in eating qualities to the collard. Kale is more hardy than cabbage andwill stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the Central and Lower• South. It is much improved in quality by being touched by frost. Of all thecabbage tribe this is the most finely flavored, and it would be more generallygrown were its good qualities more widely known. The tall varietie

Hastings' seeds : fall 1914 catalogue . Hastings Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant BORECOLE OR KALE FOR WINTER GREENS We sincerely wish we could get our friends to grow Kale more extensively, as it is somuch superior in eating qualities to the collard. Kale is more hardy than cabbage andwill stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the Central and Lower• South. It is much improved in quality by being touched by frost. Of all thecabbage tribe this is the most finely flavored, and it would be more generallygrown were its good qualities more widely known. The tall varietie Stock Photo

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Hastings' seeds : fall 1914 catalogue . Hastings Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant BORECOLE OR KALE FOR WINTER GREENS We sincerely wish we could get our friends to grow Kale more extensively, as it is somuch superior in eating qualities to the collard. Kale is more hardy than cabbage andwill stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the Central and Lower• South. It is much improved in quality by being touched by frost. Of all thecabbage tribe this is the most finely flavored, and it would be more generallygrown were its good qualities more widely known. The tall varieties shouldbe sown thinly in drills in August and September, the dwarf sorts one mouthlater. It is a favorite vegetable to furnish greens in the South during win-ter and spring, and for that use there is nothing better. Farlv ftvAAit f*u Also variously known as Dwarf German, t<lr, y UICCM vUriCU Dwarf Curled Scotch, and Siberian. (Nfl Oflfl This is the variety usually sown in the fall for spring use. Itnu. tUU / jg rather low growin

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