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parsnips. 



Culture, As this vegetable requires along period for growth, 

 and does not endure much heat, it must be sown at the beginning 

 of the cool weather of the fall, in order to be grown most success- 

 fully. Parsnips prefer a rich loamy soil, and should be sown in 

 rows about two feet apart. After being once started they require 

 only a moderate amount of water and cultivation. The more 

 rapidly they are kept growing the more tender and sweet they 

 will be. 



Varieties. Two varieties are grown — the Hollow Crown, a 

 long smooth variety, and the Turnip-rooted. 



PEAS. 



Culture. The pea is a vegetable that often causes the grower 

 considerable anxiety in our region. It is not an especially diffi- 

 cult vegetable to grow, but is an uncertain one. With proper 

 treatment it produces well during favorable seasons. Being a 

 plant of which we eat the seed, the desired part cannot be pro- 

 duced during frosty weather, and the vegetative part cannot endure 

 dry heat. Hence the plan resorted to here is to grow the vege- 

 tative part during the cool weather of winter, for producing pods 

 during the temperate weather of spring; or to try to get the plant 

 to go through all its stagesduring the temperate weather of fall. 

 In doing the latter, growers are not always successful. The 

 danger during the winter is that the early bloom and pods will 

 be killed by frost. The danger during the fall is that the pods 

 will not mature quickly enough to escape the November frosts, 

 since it is difficult to get them to germinate early enough to 

 reach maturity before that time. The pea is such an excellent 

 vegetable when grown, that it is worthy of a gardeners best 

 efforts. Peas enjoy a rich mellow soil. The seed is sown 

 in drills about two feet apart, and irrigation furrows run along 

 the sides, except when sown in moist soil in cool weather. 

 Sometimes they are covered by plowing a light furrow upon the 

 seed in the drill. This leaves a furrow for irrigation. If sown 

 during the cool part of the winter in moist soil, they will come up 

 without irrigation, but irrigation is always essential when sown 



