OCT.] KITCHEN VEGETABLES. 121 



Of lifting and storing Beet. 



About the end of the month, the crops of red 

 beet should be taken up and be stored for winter use. 

 Choose dry weather, if possible, for this business; 

 and lift the roots carefully, as they will bleed at 

 every hurt or wound. They should be stored among 

 clean, dry sand, in a cellar, shed, or out-house, where 

 they may be quite secure from frost or wet. If they 

 are let remain in the ground, as some choose to do, 

 they must be covered before winter with reeds, bean 

 haulm, or the like ; but in this way they are very 

 apt to rot, and also to lose their colour, by being 

 blanched with rain ; and it is a better way to lift 

 and store them, as above. In dressing off their tops, 

 do not cut near to the crown of the roots, but at an 

 inch away from it, as they are apt to bleed, if 

 wounded, as noticed above. 



Of earthing up Brocoli and Brussels Sprouts. 

 The crops of brocoli should now be cleared from 

 weeds ; and about the middle or latter end of the 

 month, they should be finally moulded up for win- 

 ter 5 observing to choose a dry day for the opera- 

 tion. Treat the crops of Brussels sprouts in like 

 manner. 



Of laying over the crops of early Brocoli, c. 



About the middle or latter end of the month, the 



most forward crops of brocoli, especially of the tall 



growing kinds/'should be lifted, and be laid over on 



their sides, in the manner of soughing in plants > 



