'green house' or cabbage house

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/32128

greenhouse Besides the cellar there was sometimes a greenhouse or cabbage house as some people call it. The greenhouse was a small cellar used for the storing of cabbage. The cabbage was not stored with the other vegetables because the cabbage needed cooler temperatures. The greenhouse was usually built by covering part of an old boat with sods. The sods weren't as thick as those used in building a cellar. [reverse] (Green or cabbage house) <--- sods are not as thick as for cellar since cabbage needs cooler temperatures <--- sawed off part of boat turned bottom up <--- may be 2 doors like in cellar ^ sods placed at ends as well as on the sides of the 'boat'. [see illus. - other side] DNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973 [check] Used I and Sup Used I 1 Used I This is the first side of a two-sided card. The other side is G_14736.