4H HORTICULTURAL MEMOIRS. 



practice to follow it by wheat. As it draws its 

 nourishment from the deeper parts of the soil, it 

 is evident, that it is particularly calculated to 

 succeed the generality of fibrous- rooted vegeta- 

 bles. If sown, therefore, after a hay or barley 

 crop, it seldom needs any manure, and yields a 

 very good produce without it. In England, 

 where manure is required, farm-yard dung is 

 preferred, and it is turned into the soil by a 

 light plough, immediately before sowing the 

 seed. But in Guernsey, sea-weed is universally 

 adopted when it can be obtained, a species of 

 manure, in which many districts of the High- 

 lands abound, although its use is by no means 

 so extensive as it deserves to be. The recent 

 and apparently steady diminution in the price of 

 kelp now going on, will doubtless introduce this 

 valuable manure into much greater use in the 

 Highlands, than has hitherto been the case. 



The parsnip is considered by the Guernsey 

 farmers, to be the most nutritious root known, 

 superior even to the carrot and the potato. 

 When small, it is given to the animals whole ; 

 but when large, it is sliced longitudinally. As 

 no farmer in Guernsey feeds his horses or cattle 

 on parsnips alone, it is not possible to determine 

 its exact value from their practice, with the ac- 

 curacy which the more scientific agriculturists 

 of this country would desire. The art has not 

 vet attained in that island the same precision, 



