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three stalks, and has sold as much as $1,500 worth 

 from the building in one season. Stalks seem to 

 grow all right in a dark place, and he says they sell 

 for more than those grown under glass. (In a very 

 small way, this forcing could be done in any ordi- 

 nary cellar. It is important to let the clumps freeze 

 before storing them inside.) 



HORSERADISH. The best soil is a rich, deep,. 

 loose, moist loam. This plant is a hardy perennial, says 

 Prof. Bailey, in Garden-Making, but for market it is 

 chiefly grown as an annual crop. "It is propagated 

 by 'sets,' which are small roots (about the size of 

 one's finger) which are trimmed from the large roots 

 when the crop is stored in the fall. These sets should 

 be cut in pieces four to six inches long, the top end 

 square so as to mark the right end up for if the 

 sets are planted wrong end up, crooked roots will 

 result. The sets are covered two or three inches deep 

 in a vertical position. The roots are dug in late fall, 

 and care is taken to get all the pieces of roots out 

 of the land, for the plant is apt to become a bad 

 weed. If old crowns are planted, crooked and 

 branchy roots are obtained." 



Sets made in the fall I tie in bundles and keep 

 over winter packed in sand in a cool cellar. Rows 

 should be about two and a half feet apart to permit 

 of horse cultivation, or about half that distance for 

 wheel-hoe work. Space sets about ten inches apart 

 in the row. 



