134 Truck Gecwing in the South. 



WINTER CABBAGE AND HOW TO GROW THEM. 

 By Tom R. Za.chae.t. 



We promised to write an ai'ticle on varieties of winter 

 cabbage for your May 15th issue but failed to get up copy 

 in time for publication. 



First, we will tell the readers oi the Cultivator some- 

 thing about the merits and history of the North Carolina 

 Buncombe cabbage. 



In the year 1832, our grandfather, John A. Zachary, 

 moved from Suriry County, N. C, to this valley, known 

 then and since as Cashiers Valley, cutting his way through 

 the wilderness into the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

 He brought with him a few spoonfuls of his favorite cab- 

 bage seed, having used them for many years previous', 

 since that time his variety of cabbage has been gTown and 

 kept up by the Zacharys and other people of the Blue 

 Ridge section. For many years this variety of cabbage 

 had no name. 



As late as 1850 the mountaineers of this section hauled 

 chestnuts, venison, hams', apples and cabbage to Augusta, 

 -Ga., a distance of 200 miles or more; (that being the near- 

 est railroad point at that time) ; and exchanged their pro- 

 duce for such "luxuries" as Liverpool salt, brown sugar, 

 coffee, and for bunch thread used by our mothers who wove 

 the breeches in those days and may bave worn them too, as 

 some of them are in the habit of doing until this day in 

 some parts of the country. 



Alexander Zachairy, the writer's father, in making those 

 annual trips to market, always carried a few pounds of 



