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the plants. The set or root is planted perpendicularly, three 

 inches under the surface. There is no danger in planting 

 the sets thus deep, for horseradish is particularly tenacious 

 of life, and will start and push through the soil even if 

 planted much deeper. The motive in planting it under the 

 surface is to delay its starting, so as not to interfere with 

 the cabbage crop, which may close over it without any 

 injury whatever to the horseradish. It sometimes happens, 

 however, either from planting too near the surface, or by 

 the sets being very strong, that the horseradish grows so 

 strongly as to interfere seriously with the cabbage crop. 

 In such cases it must be cut off by the hoe, and this will 

 not injure it in the slightest degree. We have often had to 

 hoe it off twice before the cabbage crop was ready. It will 

 be borne in mind that it is the root only of this crop that is 

 wanted, and that, being grown mostly in the late summer 

 and fall months, the removal of the leaves in June, or July 

 even, does not in any way affect the crop. 



" As soon as the cabbages have been cut off the stumps are 

 dug up, and the ground deeply hoed, so as to encourage the 

 growth of the horseradish crop. This rarely requires to be 

 done more than once, the rapid growth of the leaves smother- 

 ing all weeds. It attains its full growth of root by the end 

 of October, when it may be dug up ; but, being an entirely 

 hardy plant, we usually defer lifting it until all our more 

 tender vegetables are secured, so that the time of digging it 

 up is usually in November and December. It is then placed 



