CARROTS AND PARSNIPS lOI 



later, or true leaf, can be easily recognized. It is 

 shaped like a palm leaf fan, with sharply notched 

 edges. Nothing else in the row will be likely to 

 resemble it. 



Special Methods of Planting Parsnips 



If the ground where parsnips are to be planted is 

 weedy, and the seeds are likely to be choked, it is 

 possible to sow the seed in the cold frame, and then 

 transplant to the rows. The long root makes it 

 easy to get them started in the new ground. 



Be sure that the earth is soft and turned deep. 

 Then drive the bar down six or eight inches, making 

 the holes four inches apart. Fill the holes with 

 water. When it has soaked in, set the parsnips 

 carefully in the holes. Be sure that the fine end of 

 the root drops straight do"wn its entire length, and 

 that the moist earth is gathered firmly about it. 



Gardeners of long experience get fancy parsnips 

 by preparing the earth beneath the roots with a 

 bar. When the row is spaded and made fine, they 

 drive deep holes with a crowbar, four or five inches 

 apart. These are then filled with fine, rich earth. 

 At the top, the seeds are planted, two or three to 

 the hole. As the long taproots go down, they find 

 the passage clear below them, , and extra smooth 

 roots are the fesult. 



Ctilture. — When two inches high, parsnips should 

 be cultivated carefully with a trowel and all weeds 



