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or drum-head cabbage, is in great request, 

 grows to a moderate size, and is used for 

 what they call sour-crout, for the winter. 

 To preserve them, they shred the cabbage 

 into a barrel, and salt it ; and when it has 

 remained there some time, it grows sour, and 

 is also used as sallad, or boiled for the same 

 purpose as other cabbages are. The early 

 York and May are cultivated, but not in the 

 same perfection as in England. After the 

 first cutting of the early cabbage, the stalk 

 dies. All cabbages, intended for winter, are 

 either placed in a cellar with earth to put the 

 roots in, or taken up and planted thick on a 

 bed in the garden, and a shelter like a house 

 erected over them, covered with pine-tree 

 boughs, or thatched with straw, which 

 causes the outer leaves to rot, and the whole 

 of the cabbage to have a very unpleasant 

 smell and taste. 



Vegetables are so much used in America, 

 that young clover is very frequently eaten 

 for greens in the spring. The stalk of the 

 cabbage is generally set out in the garden 



