CABBAGE PALM 



1034 



CABINET 



purple and the Savoy, or wrinkled-leaved, 

 varieties. The red cabbage is used chiefly 

 for pickling, while the green is either cooked 

 in various ways and served hot, or eaten 

 raw as a salad. The German sauerkraut is 

 made of cabbage salted and pressed in barrels 

 until it ferments slightly. Cabbage is over 

 ninety-seven per cent water, and thus has prac- 

 tically no food value, but it is extremely valu- 

 able as a preventive of or remedy for scurvy. 



Cabbages are also fed to cattle, and the 

 Channel Islands, the home of a fine breed of 

 cattle, produce a remarkable cow cabbage which 

 often grows to a height of fifteen feet. 



Cabbages may be had the entire year, for 

 autumn as well as spring and summer planting 

 yield excellent results. 



Cabbage Enemies. There are several fungus 

 growths which attack cabbage plants, often 

 doing great dam- 

 age; no effective 

 remedy has been 

 found except in a 

 rotation of crops 

 and the planting 

 of the vegetables 

 in fresh soil. Of 

 insect pests the 

 most destructive 

 which there 



CABBAGE BUTTERFLY 



Of 



are 



is the cabbage worm, 

 several species. These are 

 the larvae (young) of the white butterfly; 

 sometimes they practically destroy cabbage 

 gardens by feeding on the leaves and burrow- 



CABBAGE WORM 



ing into the heads of the cabbages. Since it 

 is unsafe to spray cabbages with Paris green, 

 they should be treated with a kerosene emul- 

 sion before the heads form. 



CABBAGE PALM, a name given to various 

 species of palm trees, whose young, tender 

 leaf-buds resemble the cabbage and when 

 pickled or boiled are used as food. A cab- 

 bage palm found in the Southern United States, 



also called palmetto, has fun-shaped leaves and 

 grows to a height of from thirty to fifty feet. 

 In the West Indies it is a tall, graceful tree 

 whose leafy top is sometimes 200 feet above 

 the ground. The cabbage palm is a species of 

 the arcca palm (see PALM). 



CAB'INET, a term generally applied in 

 modern usage to the group of officials, called 

 ministers, or secretaries, who are heads of the 

 important departments through which the gov- 

 ernment of a country is carried on, and who 

 form an advisory body to the chief executive, 

 who may be termed a President, a Premier 

 or a Prime Minister. 



The Cabinet of the President of the United 

 States. The President is sole head of the 

 executive branch of the government, which is 

 divided into various departments that have 

 been created from time to time by act of Con- 

 gress. The heads of these departments con- 

 stitute the President's Cabinet. Though the 

 word Cabinet is not mentioned in the Consti- 

 tution, the establishment of the various subor- 

 dinate departments is implied in the clause 

 which states that the President may "require 

 the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer 

 in each of the executive departments, upon 

 any subject relating to the duties of their 

 respective offices" (see Art. II, Sec. 2, Clause 1). 



Congress is given authority in the Constitu- 

 tion to pass all laws necessary for carrying 

 into effect the powers vested in the govern- 

 ment of the United States, and in accordance 

 with this authority the first session of the 

 First Congress established, in 1789, the depart- 

 ments of State (at first called Foreign Affairs), 

 of the Treasury and of War (which then in- 

 cluded both military and naval affairs). The 

 secretaries of these departments, and the 

 Attorney-General, who was then an official of 

 the Judicial Department of the government, 

 comprised Washington's first Cabinet. The 

 Attorney-General became a regular Cabinet 

 official in 1814. 



The Postoffice Department was organized 

 in 1794, but the Postmaster-General was not 

 included among the Cabinet officials until 1829. 

 The Department of War having been divided 

 in the meantime, the Secretary of the Navy 

 was created a Cabinet officer in 1798. In 1849 

 the Department of the Interior was established, 

 in 1889 the Department of Agriculture, and in 

 1903 the Department of Commerce and Labor. 

 This latter department was divided by act of 

 Congress in 1913 and a new Department of 

 Labor was created. Each of these ten depart- 



