HOREHOUND HORSE-RADISH 135 



Soil. Light, warm, and dry, well enriched. 



Distances. Rows two feet apart, plants a foot apart 

 in the row. Or set the plants eighteen inches apart 

 each way. 



Depth. One-half inch for seed. Root-divisions as 

 before. 



Sow when the ground is fit, thinly. 



Thin at three inches high, to six inches apart. 



Transplant the intermediate plants, when six inches 

 high. 



Set root-divisions in spring. 



Start cuttings in June, in shady position. Set in 

 plantation when once established. 



Dress each spring with well-rotted manure, or with 

 a good general fertilizer. 



Culture should be clean. 



Gather the leaves when the plant is growing well. 

 Pick lightly the first year; afterward, pick heavily twice 

 a year, in midsummer and fall. 



Use. Boil the leaves and strain, add sugar and boil 

 till thick enough to harden. 



Protection not necessary. 



Renew from root-divisions when the plants show less 

 vigor. Or root-prune every second year. 



HORSE-RADISH (Cochlearia Jrmoracia) is a peren- 

 nial plant which for best results should be grown as an 

 annual. It is grown for its roots, used grated as a con- 



