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trench, a foot deep, and throw the earth up on the 

 four-feet bed. Make the top of the bed level and 

 smooth. Lay some poles, or old rails, at a foot 

 apart, long-ways, upon the bed. Then put some 

 smaller poles, or stout sticks cross ways on the 

 rails or poles, and put these last at five or six in- 

 ches apart. Upon these lay, corn-stalks, broom- 

 corn stalks, or twigs or brush of trees, not very 

 thick, but sufficiently thick just to cover all over. 

 Make the top flat and smooth. Then, just as the 

 frost is about to lock up the earth, take up the cab- 

 bages, knock all dirt out of their roots, take off all 

 dead or yellow looking leaves, and some of the out- 

 side leaves besides ; put the cabbages, head down- 

 wards, upon the bed, with their roots sticking up ; 

 and cover them with straw so thick as for the straw 

 to come up nearly to the root of the cabbage. Do 

 not pack them quite close. It is better if they do 

 not touch each other much. Lay some bits of wood 

 or brush-wood, to prevent the straw from blowing 

 off. If the frost catch you, before you have got the 

 cabbages up, cut them off close to the ground, and let 

 the stumps, instead of the roots, stick up through the 

 straw. Out of this stack you will take your cab- 

 bages perfectly green and good in the spring, when 

 the frost breaks up ; and to this stack you can, at 

 all times in the winter, go, with the greatest facility, 

 and get your cabbages for use, which you can to no 

 other species of conservatory that I ever saw or 

 heard of. The hollow part below the cabbages 

 takes away all wet that may come from occasional 

 rains or meltings of snow ; and the little ditches on 

 the sides of the bed keep the bed itself free from 

 being soaked with wet. Even if deep snows come 

 and lie for months, as in Nova-Scotia, New Bruns- 

 wick, and Canada, it is only removing ihe snow a 

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