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foot apart. Make, not drills, but little marks along the ground, and put 

 the onions at six or eight inches apart. Do not cover them with the 

 earth, but just press them down upon the mark with your thumb and 

 fore-finger. The ground ought to be trodden and slightly. raked again 

 before you make the marks ; for no earth should rise up about the 

 plants. Proceed after this as with sown onions ; only observe that, if 

 any should be running up to seed, you must twist down the neck as 

 soon as you perceive it. 



Parsley, — The best way is to sow it in spring, and in very clean 

 ground ; because the seed lies long in the ground, and, if the ground 

 be foul, the weeds choke the plants at their coming up. A bed of six 

 feet long and four wide, the seed sown in drills at eight inches apart, is 

 enough for any family in the world. But, every body likes parsley, and 

 where the winter is so long and so sharp as it is in this country, the 

 main thing is to keep it through the winter. This may be done by 

 covering the bed six inches thick with long litter after the ground is 

 frozen, which must remain until spring ; or if some of the roots be 

 taken up early in November and put in a frame or light cellar, the 

 leaves will keep green a long time. 



Parsnip. — See Parsnip in The Farm. 



Peppers. — Varieties: grossum, or bell pepper, tomato-slfeped, or squash, 

 long red, or bird's bill, cherry, or West Indian, sweet Spanish ; used as 

 a salad, has a very delicate taste. 



Sow seed in the open ground in May, in drills two feet asunder, and 

 half an inch deep. When the plants are grown an inch or two high, 

 thin them to the distance of fifteen or eighteen inches in the rows. 

 The ground should be afterward hoed deep round the plants, and kept 

 free from weeds by repeated hoeings. 



Pea. — See article Pea in The Farm. 



Radish. — Varieties : early scarlet stort top ; root long and spindle- 

 shaped, leaves very short. It is the earliest, most crisp and mild flavor- 

 ed, and requires less space than the other varieties ; salmon : a few 

 days later ; not so high colored ; otherwise similar to the above ; red 

 turnip : named from its shape, and bears the heat better, without be- 

 coming hard, but not so good as the above ; white turnip : like the last, 

 in every thing except color ; yellow summer : this is a turnip-rooted 

 variety, named from its color, and will stand the heat better than any 

 other variety ; black winter or Spanish : turnip-shaped, and very large ; 

 sown in August or September with turnips. It can be gathered from 

 the ground as desired during the winter. 



Those who may be desirous of having good radishes early in the 

 spring, should have a warm border prepared in the very best manner, 

 so as to be yeady to sow some of the short top scarlet by the middle of 

 March. If the ground should not be in good condition to receive the 

 seed at this time, let it be delayed a few days ; and by the first of 

 April, have another bed prepared in the open ground, by digging in 

 some good strong manure. The seed may be sown broadcast, and 

 raked in evenly, or in drills drawn about one inch deep, and a foot 

 apart. 



Rhubarb. — ^Varieties: Myatt's Victoria, Myatt's Linnaeus, (Italian,) 



