THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 255 



For the flea beetle use air-slaked lime or tobacco dust, 

 or, while the plants are young, spray with Bordeaux 

 mixture and Paris green at the rate of one ounce of 

 Paris green to twelve gallons of Bordeaux mixture. 



White grubs may sometimes be found by digging 

 around the roots of weakened plants. 



It is very important that all cabbage leaves, old stalks, 

 and other rubbish should be raked up and burned after 

 the crop has been harvested. 



Storage. To keep for the winter, cabbages should be 

 pulled up with the leaves on. They may be stored in a 

 cellar, or in a barrel set into the ground so that its top 

 is even with the surface of the soil, the barrel being 

 covered with boards and gunny bags ; or they may be 

 set in trenches, heads down, roots reaching above the 

 surface. Pack straw firmly around the heads, and cover 

 with loose soil. A dry slope is the best place. 



CARROTS 



Varieties. The short varieties of carrots are best for early 

 sowing, the half-long are used for medium-season crops, 

 and the long are sown late. The short kinds make rapid 

 growth in the warm, moist surface soil early in the spring. 

 After the surface soil is dried by the heat of the summer 

 sun the long, deep-rooted varieties thrive best. Large, 

 long, coarse varieties are sown late in the season for stock. 



Some carrots contain a large yellow core, or heart, 

 that has little food value, while in others this core is 

 entirely absent. 



