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towards the end of June, and by the middle of July, the time 

 recommended for general transplanting, the danger from grub- 

 worms is over. 



Section of Cabbage Pit. 



In the colder portions of the country, those cabbages that 

 have not attained their full growth, if set in rich ground as they 

 gi-ew, in a pit, before cold weather commences, late in autumn, 

 and covered with a roof of boards and earth, as shown by 

 the illustration, will be nicely headed by the opening of spring. 

 The engraving needs no explanation to enable any person to 

 construct a cabbage-pit. 



In some parts of New Jersey and Long Island, where we 

 sometimes see forty or fifty acres of cabbage in one field, a 

 deep furrow is ploughed, the heads are cut from the stumps 

 and placed upside down, close together in the furrow, and 

 two furrow-slices turned over the row of heads. The ridge 

 is then smoothed oflf with a shovel. Some gardeners allow the 

 stumps of the cabbages to extend above ground. But the 

 better way is to remove the stumps. 



COLEWORT, OR COLLARDS. 



Chou vert. Brassica oleracea. 



This is a species of Cabbage which is eaten when young ; it so 

 nearly resembles the early kinds of Cabbage, that it is seldom 

 cultivated. Tlie English frequently sow the seed of early-head- 



