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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



Dlan to build store houses, half in and half out of the ground; in 

 a small way, they may be kept by burying the heads in sand in 

 a cellar, or a few cabbages for home use, may be heeled in by 

 the roots in the cellar — but it should be borne in mind that de- 

 caying cabbage is dangerous material to have under a dwelling 

 house, and it should not be permitted under any circumstances. 

 In storing cabbage the loose outside leaves should be removed 

 and the stumps always left on, except when they are to be stored 

 in ^^ns 



Cabbage Seed is a somewhat difficult crop to raise in this 

 section, the trouble being in keeping the plants over winter. 

 However, it may be done if care is used. For this purpose heads 

 should not be permitted to get very hard; they should be gath- 

 ered before the stumps have been frozen and be set close to- 

 •rether, heads up, in a trench and covered witL- abo it a foot of 

 5foj^ and mulching enough to prevent severe freeil.iig. Cabbage 



Figure 66. — Seed cabbages pitted for winter. 



deed may be raised from the stumps after the heads are cut off, 

 and this is a very simple matter as the stumps can be buried like 

 turnips or even kept in bins, providing they are covered with 

 earth and kept cold, but such seed is not desirable, as the evi- 

 dence seems to show that there is a tendency to increase the 

 length of the stump at the expense of the head under such treat- 

 ment. It is generally agreed among our best seed growers that 

 cabbage seed should be saved from the terminal buds of the 

 stem which are in the cabbage head. Providing the seed cab- 

 bage are successfully wintered over, they should then be planted 

 about the 1st of May in deep furrows about three feet apart, in 



