Chap. III.] Cabbages. ^ 1^5 



of leaves with cabbage-roots sticking up through it. I 

 only put on eaough leaves to hide all the green. If the 

 frost came and prevented the taking up of the cabbages, 

 roots and all, they might be cut off close to the ground. 

 The root, I dare say, is of no use in the presenation. 

 In the months of April and Maxj, I took cabbages of all 

 sorts from this land perfectly good and fresh. The 

 quantity, preserved thus, was small. It might amount 

 to 200 cabbages. But, it was quite sufficient for the 

 purpose. Not only did the cabbages keep better in 

 this, than in any other way, but there they were, at all 

 times, ready. The frost had locked vp all those which 

 were covered with earth, and those which lay with heads 

 upwards and their roots in the ground tcere rotting. But, 

 to this land I could have gone at any tinje, and have 

 brought aAvay, if the quantity had been large, a wagon 

 load in ten minutes. If they had been covered with 

 sHoiv (no matter how deep) by uncovering twenty feet 

 in length (a work of little labour) half a ton of cabbages 

 would have been got at. This year, thinking that my 

 Savoys, which are, at once, the best in quality and best 

 to keep, of all winter cabbages, may be of use to send 

 to New York, I have planted them between rows of 

 Broom-Corn. The Broom-Corn is in roivs, eight feet 

 apart. This enabled us to plough deep between the 

 Broom-Corn, which, though in poor land, has been very 

 fine. The heads are cut off ; and now the stalks remain 

 to be used as follows : I sliall make lands up the piece, 

 cut off the stalks and lay them, first a layer longAvays 

 and then a layer crossways, upon the Lnids. Upon 

 these I shall put my Savoys turned upside down ; and, 

 as the stalks will be more than sufficient for this purpose, 

 I shall lay some of them over, instead of dirt or boughs, 

 as mentioned before. Perhaps the leaves of the Broom- 

 Corn, which are lying about in great quantities, may 

 suffice for covering. And, thus, all the materials for the 

 work are upon the spot. 



172. In quitting this matter, I may observe, that, to 

 cover cabbages thus, in gardens as well as fields, would, 

 in many cases, be of great use in England, and of still 

 more use in Scotland. Sometimes, a quick succession 

 of frost, snow and thaw will completely /-of every loaved 



