On the Cultivation of the Horse Radish. 



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the Horse Radish, which always puts out some side roots., 

 would send out such large shoots from the main root in 

 search of the dung contiguous to its sides as to materially 

 deteriorate the crop. 



After the bed is thus prepared, plants are procured by 

 taking about three inches in length of the top part of each 

 stick, and then cutting clean off about a quarter of an inch 

 of this piece under the crown, so as to leave no appearance 

 of a green bud. Holes are then made in the bed, eighteen 

 inches apart* every way, and sixteen or eighteen inches 

 deep ; the root-cuttings, prepared as directed, are let down 

 to the bottom of the holes, which are afterwards filled up 

 with fine sifted cinder-dust, and the surface of the bed is 

 raked over as is usual with other crops; it will be some 

 time before the plants appear, and the operation of weeding 

 must be done with the hand, and not with the hoe, till the 

 crop can be fairly seen ; afterwards nothing more is requisite, 

 beyond the usual work of keeping clean, till the taking up 

 of the crop, and this may be done at any time during the 

 winter months. 



My time of planting is between the middle of February 

 and the middle of March; I always find that the stouter 

 the cutting the better will be the produce ; no make-shift 

 roots will do well, neither can careless planting be allowed ; 

 if due attention to these essential points is not given, I can- 

 not promise a good crop. 



* The distance at which I have always planted my Horse Radish has been 

 eighteen inches every way, but I think, on very good land, that the rows should 

 be two feet, and the plants eighteen inches in the rows apart ; in some soils the 

 plants grow more to leaf than in others, consequently, they should in such situa- 

 tions have more room allowed for their growth. 

 VOL. V. r 



