borecoles

Brussels sprouts are the most delicate of all the borecoles, and it is a thousand pities that this delightful vegetable is not more often to be met with.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

Brussels sprouts are the most delicate of all the borecoles, and it is

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

Every one can appreciate the difference between green or red cabbages with great single heads; Brussel-sprouts with numerous little heads; broccolis and cauliflowers with the greater number of their flowers in an aborted condition, incapable of producing seed, and borne in a dense corymb instead of an open panicle; savoys with their blistered and wrinkled leaves; and borecoles and kales, which come nearest to the wild parent-form.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

The post contains images of one of the most beautiful traditional Japanese gardens I ever saw and it is composed mainly of ... - borecoles.

Japundit - Published news 2010