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they always meet a ready sale in any market where there is 

 a market for any vegetables. Still, as it is considerable 

 work to tie them, it will be best not to raise more than one- 

 quarter of an acre of them. 



Parsnips should be planted early in May on well pre- 

 pared (deeply loosened) ground, in rows 27 inches apart, the 

 seed being strewn thickly in the rows, and the plants finally 

 thinned to intervals of six inches. The reason for putting 

 the row r s so wide asunder is that it enables us to cultivate 

 the crop with the horse-hoe at a time when labor can be ill 

 spared for hand-hoeing. 



Spinach. This crop, the first year, must be planted in 

 the spring ; by planting very early, on ground so heavily 

 manured, it will be in market ahead of green peas, and will 

 bring a good price, but after these are plenty it can 

 hardly be sold at any price. The cultivation of this crop 

 is extremely simple. The seeds are sown pretty thickly 

 (say 10 Ibs. per acre) in rows about 12 or 14 inches apart, 

 and the land kept clean until it is large enough to cut. 



For all subsequent years, spinach should be planted about 

 September 15th, on the ground from which the Brunswick 

 cabbage has been taken, this being first well manured with 

 animal manure. It will require (above the latitude of New 

 York) a light covering of seaweed, leaves, or straw during 

 winter. Coming very early into market, it often brings 

 four dollars a barrel. 



Radishes are a stolen crop, and, to a limited extent, they 



