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one-quarter to one-half an inch in diameter ; these are 

 tied in bundles of from fifty to sixty, the top end being 

 cut square and the bottom end slanting (see figure 50), 

 so that in planting there will be no danger of setting the 

 root upside down ; for although it would grow if planted 

 thus, it would not make a handsome root. 



The sets, when prepared, are stowed away in boxes of 

 sand, care being taken 

 that a sufficiency of 



sand is pat between Fjg 5a _ SOKSERADISH SEI _ 



each layer of bundles 



to prevent their heating. They may either be kept in 

 the boxes in a cool cellar, or jitted in the open ground, 

 as may be most convenient. We prefer the open ground, 

 when the weather will permit. 



I have said that Horseradish is always cultivated as a 

 second crop. With us, it usually succeeds our Early 

 Cabbage, Cauliflower or Beets. Thus we plant Early 

 Cabbage, lining out the ground with the one-foot marker ; 

 on every alternate line are first planted Early Cabbages, 

 which stand, when planted, at two feet between the rows 

 and sixteen or eighteen inches between the plants. We 

 always finish our entire planting before we put in the 

 Horseradish, which delays it generally to about 1st of 

 May. It is then planted between the rows of Cabbage, 

 and at about the same distance as the - Cabbage is in the 

 rows, giving about 13,000 or 13,000 plants per acre. 



The planting is performed by making a hole about 

 eight or ten inches deep with a long planting stick or 

 light crowbar, into which is dropped the Horseradish set, 

 so that its top will be two or three inches under the sur- 

 face ; if the sets should be longer the hole should be 

 made proportionally deep, so that the top of the set is 

 not nearer the surface- than two or three inches ; the 

 earth is pressed in alongside the set, so as to fill up the 

 hole, as in ordinary planting. 



