Nov.] THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 555 
warm part of the day, but be attentive to lay them on again at 
night and in wet or cold weather. On coldish days, except there 
is a cutting frosty wind, you may raise the glasses a little behind 
for the admission of air: however, if a severe frost should set in, 
in the course of the month, you must cover the beds carefully at 
night, and at other times when necessary, to protect the plants 
therefrom. But having given general instructions for the methods 
of treating cabbage plants in page 512, and cauliflower plants in 
page 514, 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 re- 
quire. 
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 oft' any water that may be lodged between the leaves; then 
make choice of a ridge of dry earth in a well sheltered warm ex- 
posure, and plant them down to their heads therein, close to one 
another, having previously taken off" 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 
preservation 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 eai'th 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 off", 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 ap- 
ply dry straw immediately round the heads, but this is a bad prac- 
tice, 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 pre- 
ferable, as there is no way in which cabbages will keep better, if 
preserved from wet; and besides, they can be conveniently obtained, 
whenever they are wanted for use. 
