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This system may be modified so as to include six or more 
rows of inverted cabbage, the heap being flat instead of 
wedge-shaped on top. It does not turn water so well, but in 
practice is usually satisfactory. A good plan is to use about 
6 inches of soil, and to add straw or litter as the cold in- 
creases. 
Under a steady low temperature it is no trouble to keep 
cabbage through the winter, but it is hard to provide against 
the many changes of our variable climate. 
Johnson & Stokes' Matchless Late Flat Dutch Cabbage. 
Where heads are to be carried over for seed, or where it 
is intended to head up soft cabbages during the winter (a 
feasible thing) the roots are set downward instead of up- 
ward. If care be taken to remove the roots without much 
injury, they may be set in furrows or trenches, and the 
earth heaped over the cabbages just as in the several ways 
above mentioned, and they will make decided growth during 
