Cabbages.

Cabbages! bright green cabbages!

April’s loveliest gifts I guess,

There is not a plant in the garden laid,

Raised by the soil, dug by the spade,

None by the gardener water’d I ween,

So sweet as the cabbage, the cabbage green.

I do remember how sweet a smell

Came with the cabbage I loved so well,

Served up with the beef that so beautiful looked,