PRACTICAL GARDENING 



when the winter varieties should be sown. 

 One ounce of seed is sufficient for one hundred 

 feet of drill. It is best to dig the winter varie- 

 ties rather than pull them, and in this way 

 there is little danger of breaking the roots. 



Keep a dust mulch over the surface of the 

 soil by frequent cultivation. 



Parsnips. There is practically no differ- 

 ence between the culture of parsnips and car- 

 rots except that the rows of parsnips should 

 be eighteen inches apart and the plants thinned 

 to four inches apart in the row. The roots 

 may be dug in the fall and stored or allowed to 

 remain in the soil over winter and dug in the 

 spring. They should always be removed the 

 second season; otherwise they form seed and 

 become a weedy pest in the garden. 



One ounce of seed will sow a row one hun- 

 dred and fifty feet long. 



Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster. Salsify re- 

 quires a rich, deep soil. The seed is sown in 

 the spring in rows twelve inches apart and 

 about one to one and one-half inches in depth. 



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