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GARDEN STEPS 



Parsnips 



Parsnip Seed. — Parsnips are easy to grow and 

 care for when they are once well started. Well 



begun is more than half 

 don.e with parsnips. The 

 seed has little vitality at 

 best, and, unless it is of 

 the very first quality and 

 fresh, it probably will not 

 have strength enough to 

 sprout. Some kinds of 

 seed, if they are not all 

 used, may be kept over for 

 the second season and give 

 good results, though this 

 is not recommended. Pars- 

 nips, however, should al- 

 ways be purchased fresh 

 each year from a seed house 

 which thinks too much of 

 its reputation to sell last 

 year's seeds. 



Varieties. — If you have 

 no spot in the garden where 

 the soil is a foot deep, fine 

 and loose and full of humus, the wisdom of trying to 

 grow the common, Hollow Crown parsnip at all is 

 doubtful. This parsnip has a long, tapering root. 



Hollow Crown Parsnips 



