114 ~ Cabbages. [PartU. 



170. But, these spring-cabbage plants were to l^ 

 succeeded by others, to be eaten in September and on\ 

 wards to January. Therefore, on the 27th of May, r\ 

 sowed in the natural ground eleven sorts of cabbages, " 

 some of the seed from England and some got from my 

 friend, Mr. Paul. I have noticed the extreme drought 

 of the season. Nevertheless, I have now about two 

 acres of cabbages of the following description. Half an 

 acre of the Early Salisbury (earliest of all cabbages) 

 and Early 1 orA ; about 3 quarters of an acre of the 

 Dium-head and other late cabbages ; and about the 

 same quantity of Green Savoys. The first class are 

 fully loaved, and bursting : with these I now feed my 

 animals. These will be finished by the time that I cut 

 off my Swedish Turnip Greens, as mentioned in Part I. 

 Paragraph 136. Then, about mid-December, I shall 

 feed Avith the second class, the Drum-heads and other 

 late Cabbages. Then, those which are not used before 

 the hard frosts set in, I shall put vp for use through the 

 month of January. 



171. Aye! Put them up; but how? No scheme 

 that industry or necessity ever sought after, or that ex- 

 perience ever suggested, with regard to the preserving 

 of cabbages, did I leave untried last year; and, in every 

 scheme but one I found some inconvenience. Taking 

 them up and replanting them closely in a sloping man- 

 ner and covering them -with straw ; putting them in pits ; 

 hanging them up in a barn ; turning their heads down- 

 wards and covering them with earth, leaving the roots 

 sticking up in the air : in short every scheme, except 

 one, was attended with great labour, and some of them 

 forbade the hope of being able to preserve any consi- 

 derable quantity ; and this one was as follows : 1 made 

 a sort of land with the plough, and made it pretty level 

 at top. Upon this land I laid some straw. 1 then took 

 the cabbages, turned them upside down, and placed 

 them (first taking off all decayed leaves) about six 

 abreast upon the straAv. Then covered them, not very 

 thickly, with leaves raked up in the woods, flinging now 

 and then a little dirt (boughs of any sort would be better) 

 to prevent the leaves from being carried off by the wind . 

 So that, when the work was done, the thing was a bed 



