Celery Cabbage – Improved Pekin or Chihli Cabbage
A wonderful new salad plant. All who like to try new things in the vegetable kingdom will find celery cabbage a real pleasure. Delicious in taste – valued highly by epicures, celery cabbage resembles celery, and yet is like Cos Lettuce. Firm, crisp heads, easily blanched. As palatable as lettuce, keeps better and can be grown at half the cost. Boiled like cabbage it is of equal flavor and many people who do not like ordinary cabbage enjoy this celery cabbage. Excellent cooked as greens or as a salad. Not hardy to frost, but does best in cool weather. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; ¼ lb., 75c; lb., $2.50, prepaid.
Originally listed in: 1935 Isbell's Seeds
A wonderful new salad plant. All who like to try new things in the vegetable kingdom will find celery cabbage a real pleasure. Delicious in taste – valued highly by epicures, celery cabbage resembles celery, and yet is like Cos Lettuce. Firm, crisp heads, easily blanched. As palatable as lettuce, keeps better and can be grown at half the cost. Boiled like cabbage it is of equal flavor and many people who do not like ordinary cabbage enjoy this celery cabbage. Excellent cooked as greens or as a salad. Not hardy to frost, but does best in cool weather. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; ¼ lb., 75c; lb., $2.50, prepaid.
Originally listed in: 1935 Isbell's Seeds