January King cabbage

{{Short description|Cabbage cultivar}}

{{Infobox cultivar

| name = Cabbage 'January King'

| image = Chou de Pontoise.JPG

| image_caption = Cabbage 'January King' is known as chou de Milan de Pontoise in France

| species = Brassica oleracea var. sabauda

| cultivar = 'January King'

| origin =

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January King cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda,[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:1980:343:0001:0374:FR:PDF Catalogue commun des variétés des espèces de légumes], Journal officiel des Communautés européennes, 31.12.80, N°C 343/66, p. 66 'January King') is a cultivarFAO, [http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1951e/i1951e00.pdf Expert Consultation on Nutrition Indicators for Biodiversity - 2. Food consumption], Rome 2010, p. 5-6-7[13-14-15] with intermediate morphology between Savoy cabbage and white cabbage.W.A. Brandenburg, C.D. Brickell, F. Schneider, [http://www.actahort.org/books/182/182_35.htm Crop identifications of some brassica oleracea cultivars (J. Higgins, T.H. Sparks, J.L. Evans, J.R. Law)], in International Symposium on Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants, 1986 It is known as chou de Milan de Pontoise in France.[http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/pi_books/scans/pi167.pdf Plant Inventory No. 167], United States of agriculture, 1966, 261769. Col. No. D-134, p. 292

'January King' cabbage is a winter vegetable which has been cultivated in England since 1867.Caroline Foley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rZQ7texaDLYC&pg=PA116 How to Plant Your Allotment], New Holland Publishers, 2007, p.116 It has blue green leaves blushed with purple or red,{{cite book|last1=Titmarsh|first1=Alan|title=The Kitchen Gardener|date=2008|publisher=BBC Books|page=90}} and its small heads weigh {{convert|3|-|5|lb|kg|1}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.heritageharvestseed.com/cabbage.html |title=Description of January King Cabbage at Heritage Harvest Seeds |publisher=Heritageharvestseed.com |date= |accessdate=2012-05-07 |archive-date=2012-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410034223/http://www.heritageharvestseed.com/cabbage.html |url-status=dead }}