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roots are showing outside, and hung up in a convenient place in 

 the cellar. Farmers might put a load of cabbages in some corner 

 of the barn, on the floor, hay-mow, etc., and keep them lightly 

 covered with loose straw, and thus have them ready for use at 

 any time during the winter that they may desire them. The 

 regular root cellar is also a good storing place for cabbages. 



VARIETIES. 



Of these we have an endless number, and among them 

 quite a good many that are very good. In fact, we have so 

 much choice that the selection often puzzles us. Of many 

 varieties again, we have almost as many strains or selections as 

 we have leading seedsmen. Often the difference between many 



of these strains and the original type are decidedly "strained," 

 and too nice for us clumsy observers ; again, they are. often so 

 strikingly distinct that they give us the difference between very 

 indifferent and quite complete success, and this, I repeat, merely 

 from different selections strains of one and the same variety. 



A serious fault of many of the cabbage seeds that I have 

 bought of various sources during recent years, is their somewhat 

 <4 mixed " condition. We often get too many sorts in one and 

 the same lot, and the consequence is a mixture of all sorts. The 

 evil seems to be on the increase, too. In justice to the publisher 

 of my work Mr. Maule I have to say that I have been much 

 pleased with both the high quality, and the purity of all the 

 cabbage seeds I have had of him. I cannot agree with him and 



