556 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Nov. 
therefrom. But having given general instructions for the methods 
of treating cabbage plants in page 513, and cauliflower plants in 
page 515, I now refer you thereto for further information. 
Observe that the cauliflower being much more tender than the 
cabbage plants, will require more care and covering to protect 
them from frost; and that either will be greatly injured by being 
deprived of light or air longer than their safety or preservation 
require. 
Preserving Cabbages and Borecole for Winter and Spring use. 
Immediately previous to the setting in of hard frost take up your 
cabbages and savoys, observing to do it in a dry day; turn their 
tops downward, and let them remain so for a few hours to drain off 
any water that may be lodged between the leaves; then make 
choice of a ridge of dry earth, in a well sheltered, warm exposure, 
and plant them down to their heads therein, close to one another, 
having previously taken oft' some of their loose hanging leaves. 
Immediately erect over them a low temporary shed, of any kind 
that will keep them perfectly free from wet, which is to be open at 
both ends to admit a current of air in mild dry weather. These 
ends are to be closed with straw when the weather is very severe. 
In this situation your cabbages will keep in a high state of preser- 
vation till spring; for being kept perfectly free from wet as well as 
from the action of the sun, the frost will have little or no effect 
upon them. In such a place the heads may be cut off as wanted, 
and, if frozen, soak them in spring, well, or pump water for a few 
hours previous to their being cooked, which will dissolve the frost 
and extract any disagreeable taste occasioned thereby. 
Some plant their cabbages, after being taken up and drained as 
above, in airy or well ventilated cellars, in earth or sand up to their 
heads, where they will keep tolerably well; but in close, warm, or 
damp cellars they soon decay. 
Others make a trench in dry sandy ground, and place the cab- 
bages therein, after being well drained and dry, and most of their 
outside loose green leaves pulled oft', roots upward, the heads con- 
tiguous to, but not touching each other; they then cover them with 
the dryest earth or sand that can be conveniently procured, and 
form a ridge of earth over them like the roof of a house; some apply 
dry straw immediately around the heads, but this is a bad practice, 
as the straw will soon become damp and mouldy, and will of course 
communicate the disorder to the cabbages. 
Upon the whole, the first method is, in my opinion, the most 
preferable, as there is no way in which cabbages will keep better if 
preserved from wet; and, besides, they can be conveniently ob- 
tained whenever they are wanted for use. 
The green and brown curled borecole being very hardy, will 
require but little protection; they may now be taken up and planted 
in a ridge tolerably close together, and during severe frost covered 
lightly with straw; this will preserve them sufficiently, and during 
winter the heads may be cut off as they are wanted for use; the 
