CH. 4.] THE KITCHEN GARDENER. 375 



hung up in a fhed or loft that may be de- 

 fended from froft, is as good a mode of 

 prefervation as any other. 



Crops to pull green, for Winter and 

 Spring ufe, fhould be fown, thickly, about 

 the end of July or firft of Auguft. None 

 of the kinds are fo fit for this purpofe as 

 the Strafburgh. The Welfh Onion has 

 been much ufed in this intention, but is 

 now generally out of repute. 



SECTION XVIIL 

 PARSNIP. 



THE cultivation of this root is fo near- 

 ly fimilar to that of carrot, that it 

 would only be wafting time in fayidg 

 more of it, than that the feafon of fowing 

 is from the firft of March to the firft of 

 May ; and that, as the leaves grow more 

 grofs than thofe of carrot, they are to be 

 allowed an inch or two more between the 

 plants in the row. 



This root, however, although now much 



out of ufe in the kitchen, is of a very nou- 



A a 4 riftiing 



