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PARSNIP. 

 PANAIS. Pastinaca sativa. 



VARIETIES. 

 Long Guernsey Cup. | Large Dutch, or Common. 



THIS is a hardy biennial plant, common in calcareous 

 soils ; it has long been an inmate of the garden, and forms 

 a vegetable dish in the Winter, with salt meat, salted 

 fish, &c. 



Parsnip seed may be planted from the middle of March 

 to the last week in April, in drills one inch deep and four- 

 teen inches apart ; and as this vegetable requires the whole 

 season to grow in, the sooner the seed is planted the better. 

 Parsnips grow best in a deep soil, manured well the preced- 

 ing fall. Sow the seeds thick along the drills, at the rate of 

 five or six pounds per acre, and rake them in evenly. * 



When the plants are two or three inches high, thin them 

 to the distance of six or eight inches in the rows. They 

 should be kept free from weeds, by regular hoeings through 

 the'Summer, and in Autumn they will be fit for use ; but 

 they improve in flavour after having been frozen, and will 

 endure the severity of a hard Winter, See calendar for 

 November. 



Parsnips require from thirty to forty minutes boiling, 

 according to their size and age, Some boil them in water, 

 seasoned with salt, until tender ; but they are better when 

 boiled with salt pork, and afterwards mashed and fried in 

 butter. 



* This plant, although when in full growth will endure the extremes 

 of heat and cold, it requires peculiar management to promote and pre- 

 serve germination in an early stage of culture. In order to give the 

 seed a fair chance, it should be planted in such ground as is susceptible 

 of moisture, and that is not apt to incrust when dry. The seed should 

 be dropped thick along the drills, and well covered as single or solitary 

 plants are apt to perish, from not having sufficient strength to opentho 

 pores of the earth, and in the event of drought such plants die off pre- 

 maturely. If cultivated in light or dry ground, the same should be 

 polled or pressed immediately aftpr depositing the seed therein, to pre 

 fierve moisture, 



