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GARDENING FOB YOUNG AND OLD. 



seed, a small bed would afford an abundance. JSut if you 

 have no parsley at all in the garden, and wish a supply 

 early in the summer, a good plan is, to sow the seed in a 

 box in the house, in February, and transplant it to the 



Fig. 14. PABSLBT. 



open ground as soon as the weather is suitable. It is a 

 hardy, vigorous plant, and grows rapidly when fairly 

 started, but is slow until the plants get firm hold of the 

 soil. 



PAESNIR 



Taking one year with another, there are few crops 

 which the farm-gardener can raise to greater advantage 

 and profit, in proportion to the labor required, than the 

 Parsnip. It is hardier than the carrot, can be sown earlier, 

 requires less weeding, yields quite as many or more bush- 

 els to the acre, and the roots, if we wish, can be left in 

 the soil all winter without injury. If desired, parsnips 

 can be sown in the fall; the only precaution necessary 

 being to put in about twice as much seed as you would 



