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Warm part of the day, but be attentive to lay them on again at 

 liight and in wet or cold weather. On coldish days, except there 

 is a cutting frosty wind, you may raise the glasses a little behind 

 tor the admission of air : however, if a severe frost should set in, 

 in the course of the month, you must cover the beds carefully at 

 night, and at other times when necessary, to protect the plants 

 therefrom. But having given general instructions for the methods 

 of treating cabbage plants in page 501, and cauliflower plants in 

 page 50(3, I now refer you thereto for further information. 



Observe that the cauliflower being much more tender than the 

 cabbage plants, will require more care and covering to protect 

 them from frost ; and that either, will be greatly injured by being 

 deprived of light or aiv, longer than their safety or preservation re- 

 quire. 



Preserving Cabbages and JBoreCclc, for Winter and S/iring use. 



Immediately previous to the setting in of hard frost, take up 

 your cabbages and savoys, observing to do it in a dry day ; turn 

 their tops downward and let them remain so for a few hours, to 

 drain off any water that may be lodged between ihe leaves; then 

 make choice of a ridge of dry earth in a well sheltered warm ex- 

 posure, and plant them down to their heads therein, close to one 

 another, having previously taken off some of their loose hanging 

 leaves. Immediately erect over them a low temporary shed, of 

 any kind that will keep them perfectly free from wet, which is to 

 be open at both ends, to admit a current of air in mild dry weather. 

 These ends are to be closed with straw when the weather is very 

 severe. In this situation your cabbages will keep in a high state of 

 preservation till spring, for being kept perfectly free from wet as 

 well as from the action of the sun, the frost will have little or no 

 effect upon them. In such a place the heads may be cut off as 

 wanted, and if frozen, soak them in spring, well, or pump water, 

 for a few hours previous to their being cooked, which will dissolve 

 the frost and extract any disagreeable taste occasioned thereby. 



Some plant their cabbages, after being taken up and drained as 

 above, in airy or well ventillated cellars, in earth or sand up to their 

 heads, where they will keep tolerably well, but in close, warm, 

 or damp cellars, they soon decay. 



Others make a trench in dry sandy ground, and place the cab- 

 bages therein, after being well drained and dry, and most of their 

 outside loose green leaves pulled off, roots upward, the heads con- 

 tiguous to, but not touching each other ; they then cover them with 

 the dryest earth or sand that can be conveniently procured, and 

 form a ridge of earth over them like the roof of a house ; some ap- 

 ply dry straw immediately round the heads, but this is a bad prac- 

 tice, as the straw will soon become damp and mouldy, and will of 

 course communicate the disorder to the cabbages. 



Upon the whole the first method is in my opinion the most pre- 

 ferable, as there is no way in which cabbages will keep better, if 

 preserved from wet; and besides, they can be conveniently obtain- 

 ed, whenever they are wanted for use. 



