166 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



plough the land into four feet ridges, lay plenty of 

 dung along the furrows, plough the ground back 

 over the dung, flatten the top of the ridge a little, 

 and put along, on the top of a ridge two rows of 

 onions, the rows seven inches apart, and the onions 

 seven inches apart in the rows. When the weeds 

 come, hoe the tojis of the ridges with a small hoe> 

 and plough first from and then to the ridges, two 

 orthree timesatthe distance of two orthree weeks, 

 as in the case of Ruta Baga, cultivated in the 

 field. When the seed is ripe, cut off the heads and 

 collect them in such a way as not to scatter the 

 seed. Lay them, on cloths, in the sun, till dry as 

 dust ; and then thresh out the seed, winnow it, and 

 put it away. The seed will be dead ripe in 

 August, and transplanted Ruta Baga, or Early 

 York Cabbages, or even Kidney dwarf beans, or, 

 perhaps, Buckwheat, may follow upon the same 

 ground, the same year. In ^garden there always 

 ought to be a crop to succeed serd-onions the 

 same summer. 



239. PARSLEY. Known to every human 

 being to bear its seed the second year, and, after 

 that to die away. It may be sown at any season 

 when the frost is out of the ground. The best 

 way is to sow it in spring, and in very clean 

 ground ; because the seed lies long in the ground, 

 and, if the ground be foul, the weeds choak the 

 plants at their coming-up. A bed of six feet long 

 and four wide, the seed sown in drills at eight 

 inches apart is enough for any family in the 

 world. But, every body likes fiarsly ; and, 

 where the winter is so long and so sharp as it is in 

 this country, the main thing is to be able to keep, 

 Parsley through the winter. It cannot be pre- 



