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The Large-rooted Parsley (Apium latifoliurri) is cultivat- 

 ed in the same manner with parsnips and carrots. If sown 

 thick, they should be thinned out as they come up. 



Parsley can be kept through a large part of the winter, if 

 taken up and put in boxes, and kept in a good cellar, and 

 watered occasionally and exposed to the light. 



Parsley is biennial, but it is well to sow it annually. 

 Eabbits are fed upon parsley. 



PARSNIP (Pastinaca saliva). 



Parsnips thrive best in a soil enriched by previous tillage. 

 No manure should be applied at the time of sowing seed. 

 As early as spring culture can be undertaken, the beds should 

 be dug deep, the seed sown in drills about an inch deep, and 

 an interval left between the drills of about fourteen inches. 

 Sow the seeds thickly, and when two or three inches high, 

 if they seem strong, thin them, so as to leave six or seven 

 inches between each plant. They require gentle hoeing 

 all through the summer, to keep off the weeds. In autumn 

 some can be taken up for winter use, and others left in the 

 ground till spring, as the frost sweetens and improves the 

 parsnip. 



PEAS (Pisum sativum). 



There are many varieties of the Garden Pea. The early 

 varieties can be put into the soil as soon as the ground can 

 be worked ; other sorts can be planted, at intervals of about 

 a fortnight, till the end of May. 



All the varieties may be planted either in single or double 

 rows ; and all, even the dwarf varieties, should be supported 

 when two or three inches high, by fan-shaped sticks for the 

 tendrils to run upon. The drills have an interval between 

 them, which is determined by the kind of Pea planted ; the 

 space is generally from four to six feet apart. 



