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Danvers and Chantenay (Plate XIV) are also recommended. 

 Long Orange and Large White Belgian will prove more 

 vigorous, and are generally grown for stock feed ; therefore 

 they should not be sown in the market-garden except 

 when there are facilities for marketing the half-grown crop. 



PARSNIP 



The parsnip can be raised in the cool season in sub- 

 tropical and the cooler tropical countries, although beets 

 or carrots are usually preferred since they can be grown 

 in les^ time. 



Many persons enjoy the taste of parsnips from the first 

 trial. Others acquire a liking for them, while only a few 

 do not relish them. It is not advisable to use them for 

 stock feed, although it is sometimes done. The parsnip 

 is not a good vegetable to be grown for distant markets, 

 but should be raised for home use and local markets. 



Soil and preparation. 



The native habitat of the parsnip is in moist or swampy 

 places, and here it grows " all to top " and produces only a 

 small root; but with the transfer to dry uplands comes 

 an increased size of root. A dry, deep loam should be 

 selected and prepared as deeply as the implements and 

 soil will permit and the fertilizer worked in deeply. 



Fertilizer for parsnips. 



Fertilizer in the following proportions should be applied : 

 ammonia, 3j per cent; available phosphoric acid, 9 per 

 cent ; potash, 8 per cent. Use from 600 to 900 pounds of 



