30 CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 



the aim to make sale before the crops of Spring greens 

 become plenty, as these replace the cabbage on many 

 tables. By starting cabbage in hot beds a crop of celery 

 or squashes may follow them the same season. 



KEEPING CABBAGES THROUGH THE WINTER. 



In the comparatively mild climate of England, where 

 there are but few days in the Winter months that the 

 ground remains frozen to any depth, the hardy cabbage 

 grows all seasons of the year, and turnips left during 

 "Winter standing in the ground are fed to sheep by yard- 

 ing them over the different portions of the field. With 

 the same impunity, in the southern portion of our own* 

 country the cabbages are left unprotected during the 

 Winter months ; and, in the warmer portions of the 

 South they are principally a Winter crop. As we ad- 

 vance farther north, we find that the degree of protec- 

 tion needed is afforded by running the plough along 

 each side of the rows, turning the earth against them, 

 and dropping a little litter on top of the heads. As we 

 advance still farther northward, we find sufficient pro- 

 tection given by but little more than a rough roof of 

 boards thrown over the heads, after removing the cab- 

 bages to a sheltered spot and setting them in the ground 

 as near together as they will stand without being in 

 contact, with the tops of the heads just level with the 

 surface. 



In the latitude of New England, cabbages are not 

 secure from injury from frost with less than a foot of 

 earth thrown over the heads. In mild Winters a cover- 

 ing of half that deptli will be sufficient ; but as we have 

 no prophets to foretell our mild Winters, a foot of earth 

 is safer than six inches. Where eel grass can be pro- 



