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When the plants are four or five inches high they should 

 be transplanted into good rich soil, in trenches two feet 

 apart and six or eight inches deep, setting the plants a foot 

 apart. As the plants grow the trenches are to he gradually 

 filled in to blanch it. To preserve it for winter use, treat 

 it the same as directed for celery. 



PARSNIP. 



The parsnip requires a deep, rich soil, and preferably one 

 that has been manured the previous autumn. The seeds 

 can be sown from the middle of March to the middle of 

 May; but as the roots require a long season to enable them 

 to grow to a good size, the earlier the seed is sown, the 

 better. 



The drills should be about an inch deep and fourteen to 

 fifteen inches apart, sowing the seeds quite thickly. When 

 grown as a field crop, the rows should be twenty inches 

 apart, so that they can be readily worked with a cultivator 

 or horse hoe. When the plants are about three inches 

 high, they should be thinned out to six or eight inches 

 apart. The after culture consists in keeping them entirely 

 free from weeds by frequent hoeings. 



As the parsnip is quite hardy, such portion of the crop 

 as may not be wanted for winter use may be left out in 

 the ground all winter. Those that are wanted for winter 

 uso should be taken up late in the autumn, and stored 

 away in the same manner as carrots or turnips. As the 

 roots descend to a great depth into the soil, great care is 

 necessa>y in taking them up, for if the roots are broken 

 off where they are of any thickness, they will lose much of 

 their flavor and sweetness. 



The sorts generally grown are the Dutch, the Guernsey 



