7S FAMILY RECEIPTS. 



PA RSLEY — PersiL 

 8own from April to August. Parsley seed seldom 

 vegetates under live weeks after sowing; it is recom- 

 mended to soak the seed twelve hours in water, mixed 

 with sulphur. This process, with attentive watering, 

 Avill cause the seed to vegetate in less than a fortnight. 

 Parsley is sometimes used in held culture. 



PARSNEP — Panais, 

 This vegetable requires a deep, rich, light soil, free 

 from stones, and should be dug or trenched before sow- 

 ing, at least two spades deep; and if manured at the 

 same time, the dung should be quite rotted and well 

 v/orkcd in. Sow as early in the spring as possible, in 

 drills two {cet apart, and cover the seed about one 

 quarter of an inch deep. Thin out to ten inches in the 

 rows, and keep them free from weeds by regular and 

 frequent hoeings. 



PEA PoiS, 



Sow as early in the year as the ground can be wor- 

 ked, in a sheltered situation in double rows four feet 

 apart, and cover the peas about three inches. Manure 

 moderately, and dig it in well. Sow the early Wash- 

 ington and the blue Prussian together, and the former 

 will come in a fortnight before the other. A quart of 

 peas will sow two double rows about twenty-hve feet 

 each. As the early crops appear, draw the soil over 

 them; and as they advance from half an inch to three 

 inches high, and when the weather is dry, draw the 

 earth to the stems, and continue repeatedly to hoe and 

 earth up, as it will assist the pease to bear plentifully. 

 When they are six or eight inches higli, place a row of 

 sticks or brush about five feet long in the middle of the 

 double rows, and a few smaller ones on the outside of 

 each row. Suit the sticks to the pease, as there is an 

 advantage in having them of a proper length; they 

 should be both tall and branchy. Sow again from the 

 middle to the end of April, to come in use about the end 

 of July and beginning of August. Where great nicety 



