208 On the Cultivation of Horse-radish. 



bottom, upon which plant a row of sets across the bed, at 

 nine inches apart each way, with their crowns upright; after- 

 wards dig the next trench the same width and cfepth, turn- 

 ing the earth into the first trench over the row of sets : thus 

 proceeding, trench after trench, to the end. 



Where more than the produce of one bed is required for 

 the supply of the family for twelve months, the third bed is 

 next to be planted, which treat as directed for the first, only 

 observing to lay the earth on the fourth, and so on for any 

 number of beds, being careful to leave the earth of the beds, 

 which are planted, as light as possible, and taking great care 

 to avoid treading them at any time until the crop is in a 

 proper state to take up, or to plant or sow other crops upon 

 the ground ; but upon every alternate bed, which is not 

 planted, a dwarf annual crop may be grown. 



About the month of May, the plants will make their ap- 

 pearance, and in the course of the summer grow very strong. 

 They must be kept clear from weeds : and as soon as the 

 leaves decay in autumn, let them be carefully raked off with 

 a wooden-toothed rake, which is all that is required until the 

 following February, when eighteen inches of the earth of the 

 unplanted bed must be laid as light as possible, and equal, 

 over the beds that are planted ; then trench and plant the 

 vacant beds exactly in the same manner as before directed. 

 Let the same care be observed to keep the ground clear from 

 weeds until the following autumn, by which time the plants 

 will have made surprising progress. As soon as the leaves 

 decay, let them be taken off by a wooden rake, after which 

 the first planted Horse-radish may be taken up, by opening a 

 trench at one end of the bed to the bottom of the roots, so 



