252 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



give 5 cwt. kainit and 3 cwt. superphosphates, and for heavy 

 soils give li to 2 cwt. sulphate of potash and 5 cwt. basic slag, 

 each quantity being for one acre. These should be spread 

 evenly over the surface of the soil immediately after digging or 

 ploughing, and should be followed, soon after the turn of the 

 year, with 5 cwt. soot. Just before sowing or planting, another 

 5 cwt. soot mixed with 1 cwt. salt should be spread. Hen 

 manure is very much valued by some Onion growers. It will 

 give the best results when dried and pulverised and mixed with 

 twice its bulk of dry soil, then broadcasted as a top-dressing 

 before planting. Good guano may be used in the same way, 

 at the rate of 2 to 3 cwt. per acre. When either of these top- 

 dressings are used the first dressing of soot may be omitted. 



Varieties : For spring sowing, good keepers : Bedfordshire 

 Champion, Giant Zittau, James's Keeping, Brown Globe, White 

 Spanish, Danver's Yellow. For autumn sowing : Sutton's A 1, 

 Lemon Giant Rocca, Trebons, Giant Zittau. For early sowing 

 in heat to make extra large bulbs : Ailsa Craig, Wroxton Im- 

 proved, Cranston's Excelsior. For bunching green : White 

 Lisbon. For pickling : Silver Skinned, New Queen. 



PARSLEY. 



Carum Petroselinum 



PARSLEY should have a place in every market garden, as it 

 is in constant demand. If the soil is suitable and there 

 is a reasonable prospect of a good market it can be grown as 

 a special crop to occupy large breadths, and can be made to 

 pay well, but it must be good, well-grown, clean stuff, or it wifl 

 often be found that a consignment does not clear the cost of 

 carriage. On small holdings the preferable method of culture 

 is to sow frequent small batches in March, June, and August, 

 so as to have a supply all the year round. 



Parsley is said to grow anywhere, and to a certain extent 

 this is true, but there is a wonderful difference between plants 

 grown on different soils. Some authorities advise light sandy 

 loam, but the writer has grown some of the finest Parsley he 

 ever saw on heavy clay, not in one season only but for several 



