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the ground. Thus tlie crop will be brought to perfec- 

 tion. 



As to the sorts, the earhest is, the early dwarf (some- 

 times called the early Salisbury) ; the next is the early 

 sea green ; then comes the early York. The sugar- 

 loaf, sweetest and richest of all cabbages, if sown and 

 transplanted when early Yorks are, will head nearly a 

 month later. It is an excellent cabbage to come in in 

 July and August. 



For the winter use, there really needs nothing but the 

 dwarf green Savoy. When good and true to kind it is 

 very much curled, and of a very deep green. It should 

 be sown as soon as the ground is at all warm, and 

 planted out as soon as stout enough. By November it 

 will have large and close heads, weighing from five to 

 eight pounds each. This is the best of all winter cab- 

 bages. If you have drum-heads, or other large cab- 

 bages, the time of sowing and that of transplanting are 

 the same as those for the Savoy. But, let me observe 

 here, that the early sorts of cabbage keep during winter, 

 as well as the large late sorts. It is an error to sup- 

 pose, that those cabbages only, which will not come to 

 perfection til! the approach of winter, wnll keep well. 

 The early York, sown in June, will be right hard ia 

 INovember, and will keep as well as the drum-head, or 

 any of the coarse and strong-smelling cabbages. 



To preserve cabbages in winter, the cellar is a poor 

 place. The barn is worse. The cabbages get putrid 

 to some extent. If green vegetables be not fed from 

 the earth, and be in an unfrozen state, they will either 

 wither or rot. Nothing is nastier than putrid cabbage ; 

 and one rotten cabbage will communicate its oflfensive- 

 ness to a whole parcel. 



Lay out a piece of ground, four feet wide, and \r 

 length proportioned to your quantity of cabbages to be 

 preserved. Dig on each side of it a little 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 



