PARSNEP. B\ 



a thin batter of flour and butter, or eggs, and afterwards fried 

 brown. In my native country, Scotland, they are beaten up 

 with potatoes and butter, and eaten with milk, making a very 

 agreeable cottage dish. In an agricultural view they are val- 

 uable, for milch cows eat them with avidity, and yield an 

 abundance of milk of rich and pleasant flavor, being preferable 

 to the Carrot or Turnip for the purpose, which impart their 

 taste to the milk. There are three varieties of the Parsnep, 

 two only of which are desirable. 



Guernsey Parsnep, an improved variety of the Common, 

 grows large, and in deep light soils will attain the length of 

 two feet. 



Sugar, or Hallow Crown. This is the best variety for 

 Garden culture. It is of more uniform growth, has a smoother 

 and cleaner tuber, and is equally as hardy and better flavored 

 than the former, from which it is easily distinguished by the 

 leaves arising from a cavity on the top, or crown of the root 



CULTURE. Any soil suitable for Carrots will be found fa- 

 vorable for the Parsnep. Deep sandy loam is their delight. 

 If it is not naturally so, it should be dug twenty inches deep 

 as directed for trenching, page 8. Sow any time from March 

 to May, in drills, one inch deep and fourteen inches from drill 

 to drill. Scatter the seeds thinly, and cover neatly and evenly 

 with the rake. As the plants grow, thin them out occasionally 

 and finally, till they stand eight inches apart in the row. In 

 three weeks the seeds will appear, from which period till the 

 leaves cover the ground, the soil must be stirred with the hoo 

 every week or two. In October the leaves will begin to turn 

 yellow, which is a certain sign of their maturity. They may 

 then be dug up for use, as they are wanted. They will stand 

 any severity of frost, so that it is necessary only to lift as many 

 as will supply the family till the frost leaves the ground. They 

 should be lifted their full length, and not cut with the spade, 

 which injures them. Store away a sufficient supply for Winter 



