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CHEVEIL, TUENIP-EOOTED. 



ChoBrophyllum huWosum. 



This is a comparatively new vegetable, and in its 

 habits is similar to the common Parsnip. During 

 the excitement about the Potato-rot in Europe, it 

 was recommended as a substitute for the Potato, and 

 as being fully equal to it in quality. In shape it 

 resembles the Parsnip. Wlien boiled, it is dry, 

 white, and farinaceous, but it tastes more like boiled 

 Chestnuts than Potatoes. 



The seed may be sown in drills in April, and cul- 

 tivated like Parsnips or Carrots. On well-manured 

 ground it will yield five or six tons to the acre. The 

 roots may be left in the ground during Winter, or 

 harvested and kept in pits, or in a root-cellar, until 

 the following Spring. 



COEN. 



Zea mays. 



Sweet Corn is generally cultivated as a garden 

 vegetable ; but in some districts, where land is not 

 very expensive, it is grown on a large scale for mar- 

 ket. New Jersey and Long Island farmers raise 

 annually hundreds of acres for the New York mar- 

 ket ; and, taking one year with another. Sweet Corn 

 will pay from seventy-five to one hundred dollars 

 per acre. The profits from this crop are not large, 

 bnt the demand is usually good, and it will pay the 

 !j;rower about double what common field Corn will, 

 with the same labor and expense for manure. 



