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The modes of preserving these varieties through 

 the winter are also somewhat different. The open- 

 leaved sorts may be left where they have grown,* 

 and used as wanted. Head cabbage may be set in 

 cellars, or buried in holes or trenches in the gar- 

 den, and covered with straw and earth; cauliflow- 

 ers must be housed in cellars or barns, and hung up 

 by their roots ; and broccoli, which does not bear 

 this treatment, may be left in the garden,! and man- 

 aged in the way last suggested for head cabbage. 

 The stalks of the more common species are worth 

 preserving ; and, when set out in the spring, give 

 sprouts,;}; which furnish an excellent and well-timed 

 article for the table. 



A few of the best plants of each variety should 

 be kept for seed ; and, in setting them out, care 

 must be taken to keep them as far apart as possible. 



THE CARROT (Daucus). This genus comprehends 

 several species, the principal of which is the Dau- 

 cus Carota. Of this there are three varieties, the 

 white, the orange or yellow, and the red : having 

 perhaps different qualities in different soils and cli- 

 mates, as we find the white preferred in Italy, the 

 yellow in France, and the red in England. Abbe 

 Rozier says of the white variety, that " it is less 

 injured by humidity than the others;" which, as is 

 justly remarked by the compilers of the Cours d'Ag- 

 riculture, would be a good reason why it should be 

 preferred in England, or in some of the northern or 

 western provinces of France, but a very bad one 



* Even the open-leaved sorts are better to be buried in trench- 

 es. A hard winter will utterly destroy them in the open ground. 

 J. B. 



t In France, the winter management of the broccoli is ex- 

 actly that of the artichoke. See Parmentier and the Phytolo- 

 gie Universelle of Jolyclerc. 



J It has been suggested that cabbage sprouts, taken off like 

 suckers from artichokes, and planted, will give good heads, and 

 sooner than they can otherwise be obtained ; but of this we 

 have ourselves no experience. 



