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with earth, and those which lay with heads up 

 wards and their roots in the ground were rot 

 ting. But, to this land I could have gone at 

 any time, and have brought away, if the quan 

 tity had been large, a waggon load in ten mi 

 nutes. If they had been covered with snoiv (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 rows, 

 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 shall make lands up the 

 piece, cut off the stalks and lay them, first a 

 layer longways and then a layer crossways, 

 upon the lands. 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 cover 

 ing. And, thus, all the materials for the work 

 are upon the spot. 



