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and are considered a fine flavoured and nutritious 

 food, when boiled and mashed with butter. They 

 may be easily propagated by cutting the roots into 

 sets, with two eyes in each, and planting them in 

 the same manner as potatoes, in February and 

 March. To have them in perfection, they should 

 be hoed frequently, and the ground kept loose around 

 them. 



Parsnip. — Parsnip seed may be planted from the 

 middle of February to the middle of March, in 

 di'ills one inch deep and fourteen inches apart. Sow 

 the seed thick along the drills, at the rate of five 

 or six pounds per acre, and rake them in evenly. 

 When the plants are two or three inches high, thin 

 them to the distance of six or eight inches in the 

 rows. 



Work fob Maech. 



(First Part.) — Sow melons, pumpkins, squashes, 

 cucumbers, okras, pigeon-peas for forage, oats, cotton, 

 barley. Southern Indian-corn, and round peas for 

 forage, buckwheat, lucerne, turnips, white-beans, 

 spinach, parsley, tomatoes, hay-seeds, peppers, orange- 

 seed. Plant arrowroot, tous-les-mois, Guinea-grass, 

 aloes, vine-cuttings, cabbage, onions, leeks, garlic, 

 salad, cassava-trees, sweet potatoes in hot-beds. 



