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much as can be encircled by the thumb and forefinger. It 

 can be taken up and preserved for winter use, or to trans- 

 plant for seed in trenches, similar to celery, or bedded in 

 the manner of preserving " late cabbages " for seed, par- 

 tially burying the leaves, and covering lightly with coarse 

 manure or litter. When thus kept, it is taken out, washed, 

 and tied in bunches of three or four, the root and leaves 

 entire. It can be sown in cold-frames, in rows twelve 

 inches apart, and being protected by sashes, will be fit to 

 cut in winter, at which season it formerly paid enormous 

 profits, but now the supply exceeds the demand. 



Seed, The simplest plan is, when sowing a bed of car- 

 rots or beets, to sow every third row with parsley, thin- 

 ning to six inches apart, which will give it forty-five 

 inches between rows when the other crop is removed. 

 When thus sown, in the fall go over and cut out all imper- 

 fect plants, ridge the earth to but not over them, and at 

 the approach of severe cold weather cover lightly with 

 coarse litter, which must be removed early in the spring. 

 When taken up in the fall, as previously noticed, the roots 

 may be set out in four-foot rows one. foot apart, and in 

 either case keep clean by cultivator and hoe. 



The seed much resembles that of celery, grows and rip- 

 ens the same, and the directions given for harvesting and 

 cleaning that are applicable to this crop, using No. 20 

 sieve for the final cleaning. The seed will germinate when 

 two years old. 



Varieties. The " Double Curled" and "Triple 

 Curled " are the varieties .principally grown, the " Plain " 

 or single leaf not being salable. The former is the most 

 hardy, and generally grown for out-door crop, the second 

 being used for growing under glass. 



PARSNIP. 



This is extensively grown by market-gardeners, and is 

 one of the leading root-crops for the farm-garden, not only 



