a kind of cabbage cultivated for the use of the table; the manner of dressing which is this: When their heads are grown to their full bigness, they are to be cut off, with about four inches of the tender stem; the outer skin is then to be stripped off the stem, after which they are to be washed, and boiled in a clean linen cloth, as is practised for cauliflower.

They are tenderer than any cauliflower, though very like them in taste.