Dial. and U.S. Coleworts or cabbage.
1818. In the garden, they [the Kentuckians] cultivate their collards, i.e. probably coleworts, and kashaws; and, at the oven, children wait for their crablanterns, and cobble.—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 106 (Boston, 1824).
1850. Bein’ carried to a grave by cold fride collards apeerd a hard case, but the Lord is the Heavens an’ he nose!—H. C. Lewis (‘Madison Tensas’), ‘Odd Leaves,’ p. 153 (Phila.).
1882. I knew Chief Surgeon White to pay from a hundred to two hundred dollars for a quantity of squashes, collards, onions and other garden stuff which could have been purchased in Fulton or Washington market for five or six dollars.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ x. 27.
