SC - Coleworts---- Caroline help!
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri May 29 04:48:29 PDT 1998
I think you will find Ras is correct. Cabbage is one of the oldest
cultivated plants, so old that a number of variants were in existence by the
time Rome became a world power.
Because they are so wide-spread and all the same species, the loss of a type
of cabbage in English gardens does not denote its extiction, merely a change
in English tastes.
Bear
> This is not the information I have. Sylvia Landsberg, in her book "The
> Medieval Garden" states: "The lack of a suitable small headed cabbage is
> not
> so important as the loss in England, only recently, of the colewort,
> ubiquitous in medieval it's nearest relative being a non-curly kale."
>
> Percival
>
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