32 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. * 



bed. Then put some smaller poles, or stout sticks, cross 

 ways on the rails or poles, and put these last at five or 

 six inches 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 cabbages, knock all dirt 

 out of their roots, take off all dead or yellow looking 

 leaves, and some of the outside leaves beside ; put the 

 cabbages, head downwards, upon the bed, with their 

 roots sticking up; and cover them with straw so thick 

 that the top of the roots are nearly covered. 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 cabbages perfect- 

 ly green and good in the spring when the frosi 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. 



Cabbage stumps are also to be preserved ; for they are 

 very useful in the spring. You have been cutting cab- 

 bages to eat in October and November. You leave the 

 stumps standing, no matter what be the sort. Take 

 them uj) before the frost sets in ; trim off the long roots, 

 and lay the stumps in the ground, in a sloping direction, 

 row behind row, with their heads four or five inches out 

 of ground. When the frost has just set in in earnest, 

 and not before, cover the stumps all over a foot thick or 

 more, with straw, corn-stalks, or evergreen boughs of 

 some sort. As soon as the" hreaking-up comes, take off 

 the covering, and stir the ground (as soon as dry, by 

 hoeing amongst the stumps. They should be placed 

 m an rarhj t^pot ; in one of the warmest places you have, 



