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towards the end of June, and by the middle of July, the time 

 recommended for general transplanting, the danger from grub- 

 worms is over. 



Section of Cabbage Pit* 



In the colder portions of the country, those cabbages that 

 have not attained their full growth, if set in rich ground as they 

 grew, in a pit, before cold weather commences, late in autumn, 

 and covered with a roof of boards and earth, as shown by 

 the illustration, will be nicely headed by the opening of spring. 

 The engraving needs no explanation to enable any person to 

 construct a cabbage-pit. 



In some parts of New Jersey and Long Island, where we 

 sometimes see forty or fifty acres of cabbage in one field, a 

 deep furrow is ploughed, the heads are cut from the stumps 

 and placed upside down, close together in the furrow, and 

 two furrow-slices turned over the row of heads. The ridge 

 is then smoothed off with a shovel. Some gardeners allow the 

 stumps of the cabbages to extend above ground. But the 

 better way is to remove the stumps. 



COLEWORT, OR COLLARDS. 



CHOU VERT. Brassica oleracea. 



This is a species of Cabbage which is eaten when young ; it so 

 nearly resembles the early kinds of Cabbage, that it is seldom 

 cultivated. The English frequently sow the seed of early-head- 



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