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on higher ground it was found that the roots, in searching 

 for their favorite moisture, grew perpendicularly, and with 

 only sufficient laterals for sets, for future planting, thus 

 concentrating into marketable substance much that in the 

 first instance was worthless, and only a drain upon the soil. 



Soil and Preparation. The soil best adapted to this 

 crop is a deep loam, with mellow or free subsoil, and suc- 

 ceeds best on land which has been well worked and 

 manured for a number of years. If grown separately, 

 forty two-horse loads of stable-manure plowed in, or one 

 ton of bone-dust, or one half a ton of guano harrowed in, 

 should be applied to the acre. Plow deep, following with 

 the lifting subsoil plow, harrow thoroughly, smooth the 

 surface with the back of the harrow, and mark out rows 

 thirty inches apart. 



Gardeners grow this as a second crop, usually between 

 the rows of early cabbages, and in this case the perfect 

 preparation of the soil for that crop answers for this. 



The land is marked with a fifteen-inch marker, every 

 other row planted with cabbages or other crop, as the case 

 may be, and the horseradish set in the intervening rows. 



Planting and Cultivation, The sets may be planted 

 early in spring, but when in connection with another crop 

 usually about the first of May, to give the first crop a 

 chance to mature before the second requires the whole 

 ground. Along the rows make holes, eighteen inches 

 apart, and three or four inches deeper than the length of 

 the sets, using a light crowbar for the purpose. In these 

 holes drop the sets, the tops of which should be three or 

 four inches below the surface, and fill the hole with earth, 

 pressed to the roots by means of a dibble. The object of 

 this deep planting is to retard the growth when cultivated 

 as a second crop, and to give the first crop a chance to 

 mature, for if allowed an early start the rapid growth of 

 the large and numerous leaves would soon envelop the 

 other crop to its destruction. With the best of care the 



