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(as the inhabitants told me that early cab- 

 bages were so rare, and very dear in 

 their country) I thought they would be a 

 valuable crop, at five cents and a half each. 

 The compost had a most wonderful effect.' 

 It is customary, when the gardeners set out 

 cabbage-plants to stand the winter, to place 

 them in drills, with a ridge towards the 

 north-west side, and cover them with the 

 boughs of trees, with the leaves on. I did 

 the same : but, by way of trial, I left some 

 uncovered ; having an opinion the rich- 

 ness of the compost would preserve them : 

 so it did ; and I saw little difference be- 

 twixt those uncovered and those covered, 

 for the covering rotted some, where the 

 leaves lay too close to them ; and there 

 were about as many stood the winter in one 

 part as in the other. But their standing the 

 winter is of little consequence : for in the 

 spring, or at least in summer, the sun is so 

 hot, as to cause them to run to seed; and 

 very few out of the number set become cab- 

 'bages. Clover is sown on the snow, in the 



