66 Southern Gardener^ s Practical Manual 



the plants, bending the heads into this fnrrow and cov- 

 ering with a sufficient thickness of soil to prevent freez- 

 ing. If plants are transplanted in September, October 

 and November in the middle and lower cotton belt, 

 fresh heads may be gotten from the garden every day 

 throughout the winter. This is true from Atlanta south 

 in Georgia and from Clemson College south in South 

 Carolina. I have tested this personally. While trucking 

 near Atlanta, I marketed the fall- planted daily through 

 the winter until those planted in February were ready. 

 The temperature has been down to 16° this winter and 

 yet I enjoyed a dish of fresh cabbage at dinner today, 

 January 11, from my private garden at Clemson College, 

 located in the north- westernmost county of the state. 

 In this garden there are now ready for use, salsify 

 or vegetable oyster, young fall -sown beets, turnips, 

 onions from home-grown sets planted in September, 

 kale, spinach, cabbage and lettuce, the latter in cold- 

 frame. English or green peas sown in November are 

 several inches high. Tomatoes gathered after the first 

 frost and stored are still in supply, as well as 

 numerous sugar-pumpkins — a winter's supply. 



The first insect to appear on the cabbages is the flea- 

 beetle, which attacks the seed-leaves in the plant-bed. 

 Slug- shot, powdered tobacco or Paris green will check 

 them. The cutworm is destructive to the plants when 

 first set in the field or garden. If the plants are deeply 

 set as directed, the presence of the cutworm may be 

 detected by finding the leaf -stalks cut, and, if visited 

 early in the morning, the enemy may be found under the 

 leaf or near the surface of the soil. This insect hiber- 



