92 CABBAGES. 



the bed is finished, there should be nothing visible 

 except the roots and part of the stocks. The less 

 quantity of soil that is used to do this, the better ; 

 for Cabbages will keep longer and in finer condition 

 with two than with fo^^r inches of soil as a covering. 

 The greater the depth of soil put on, beyond the 

 amount necessary to cover the leaves, the more diifi- 

 cult it will be, in the Winter, to take them out as 

 they are wanted. 



Many Cabbage-growers still practise placing the 

 Cabbages close together, in single rows, heads down, 

 and then turning a furrow from either side toward 

 the Cabbages. "When the plough fails to cover all 

 the heads, the work is finished with hand-hoes. 



The curled leaved varieties of Savoy will do bet- 

 ter if " heeled in," with the heads up, in the way 

 described for keeping seed Cabbages. They will boil 

 more tender when kept in this way than with the 

 heads buried, although they will keep well when 

 protected the same as other Winter varieties of Cab- 

 bage. 



Those who are fond of Cabbage-greens, in the 

 Spring, can have plenty of them by saving the 

 stocks and heeling them in after the Cabbages have 

 been cut off during the Fall. Early in the Spring 

 these stocks are taken from their Winter quarters 

 and planted out in some nook or corner of the gar- 

 den. Yery soon the young Cabbage-sprouts may be 

 gathered in abundance, before Spring vegetables are 

 ripe. German gardeners adopt this plan of saving 

 the stocks and transplanting them into the field in 

 the Spring, to raise the sprouts for mai'ket. 



