"Kohlrabi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the past year, we have taken from the ground devoted to vegetable growing, more than 100,000 bushels of cabbage, cauliflower, onions, beets, mangel-wurzel, carrots, parsnips, salsify, potatoes, sweet-potatoes, cassava, turnips, kohlrabi and artichokes. The best part of the story is, that this heavy crop has proved profitable, to a degree far beyond our expectations! As a rule, this class of vegetables, so heavy and so perishable, cannot ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson
... of such beautiful colours that Vilmorin in his Catalogue of 1851 enumerates ten varieties which are valued solely for ornament. Some kinds are less commonly known, such as the Portuguese Couve Tronchuda, with the ribs of its leaves greatly thickened; and the Kohlrabi or choux-raves, with their stems enlarged into great turnip-like masses above the ground; and the recently formed new race (9/65. 'Journal de la Soc. Imp. d'Horticulture' 1855 page 254 quoted from 'Gartenflora' ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... much as you darn please, ma. If Ida Bell don't like the looks of you, let her go home with some of her swell stenog friends. You let your feet hurt you any old way you want 'em to. I'm going to buy you some arnica. Pass the kohlrabi." ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst |
