THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. Ill 



that are not popular are generally worthless. However, this is not 

 the ease with salsafy, and I hope many readers of the Eloeal 

 WoKLD will grow a hed of it this season. 



The way to treat it is nearly the same as for growing parsnips 

 and carrots, but it requires a rather richer soil than those roots, and 

 therefore it is desirable to trench the ground deeply, and put manure 

 at the bottom of the trench to coax the roots down, and prevent 

 them forking. But if a piece of ground can be set out for the pur- 

 pose that was heavily manured last year, deep digging will suffice, 

 and as for the rest, it must be farmed out for sowing in the same 

 way as a carrot bed. The soil I till is a rather dry and poor sand, 

 and I find that the rows may be a foot apart, and when the plants 

 are up, I thin them to nine inches apart in the row. But in those 

 deep, fertile, sandy loams, in which carrots grow to perfection, I 

 should put the rows fifteen inches apart, and I should thin the 

 plants to a foot apart in the rows. As for the rest, I need say but 

 little. Sow as early as possible in April ; thin in good time, and 

 keep down weeds. In November take up some for use, and store 

 in sand, leaving a few for spring sprouts. The cooking is performed 

 in precisely the same manner as that of parsnips, if they are to be 

 served as roots. A more elegant way is to boil them till tender, 

 then mash them with butter, and fry them in butter a nice brown. 

 The flavour is then much like an oyster, and indeed this dish is some- 

 times called the " vegetable oyster." 



As for the roots left in the ground, let them be covered with a 

 ridge of clean sand or coal-ashes in March, and about six inches 

 deep. Erom time to time, as the shoots rise from the roots, that is 

 to say, the flower stems, cut them, and boil them, and eat them in 

 the same way as asparagus. At a time when vegetables are usually 

 scarce, any really eatable dish is worth attention. 



A SELECTION OE EIEST-CLASS HEEBACEOUS PLANTS 

 OE EASY CULTUEE IN ALL PAETS OETHE BRITISH 

 ISLES. 



BY THE 0'SHA^'E. 



lEEHAPS a concise selection of these may be useful to 

 many who are acquainted with them as a class. I 

 have taken some pains to make the following selection, 

 and can confidently recommend them. I might easily 

 have found one hundred rarer or one hundred more 

 difficult to grow or obtain, but my object has been to select one 

 hundred which would give satisfaction to all, and in all parts, not 

 doubting that those who procure and grow them will be led to make 

 a fuller and more satisfying acquaintance with plants as beautiful as 

 any known, and which our climate suits so well. They are as 

 follows : — 



Anemone apennina, fulgens, sylve-^tris, and coronata (in variety), 

 Adonis vernalis, A. Japonica Honerine Jobert (and other varie- 



