The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 75
ommunications. Cow Cabbage. — I received a packet of the seed of thisextraordinary cabbage, from a gentleman of Cirencester, whobrought it from Jersey, and have sown it. In his garden, Ihave seen five healthy plants, which weathered last winter, in Correction of Miasmata in a Conservatory. 65 the… … The above is somewhat the appearance of a plot of avariety of cow cabbage that I saw growing in Jersey. It ismuch cultivated there, and attains the height of from 4 ft. to10 ft. or 12 ft. The little farmers feed their cows with theleaves, plucking them from the stem as they grow, and leavinga bunch…
