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sown annually, but if it is never per- 1 Time and Mode of Sowing.—Sow at
mitted to run to seed, the stalks being monthly intervals from February until
cut down as often as they rise, it will the middle of June. Sow thinly in drills
last for several years. It may be sown nine inches apart. The plants appear
from the close of February until the in about a month after sowin", and
middle of June, and this is repeated when of tolerable growth, require to be
about the middle of September, for thinned to nine inches asunder, and
the supply of winter and spring; but cleared from weeds, either by hand or
this is unnecessary if the plants are
not allowed to seed. The seed is to
the hoe ; which latter operation, being
performed as often as weeds appear, ia
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be inserted moderately thick, in narrow the only cultivation required. Hy the
drills barely an inch deep, twelve inches end of July, or during August, the
apart if in a bed by itself, or in a single earliest sowings will have acquired a
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one round the edge of a bed ; the mould sufficient size for occasional use; but
being raked level, and the stones im-
mediately over the seed gathered off.
The plants make their appearance in
from two to six weeks. When two or
three inches high, they may be gathered
from as required. In early June, when
they make a show for seed, the stems
should be cut down close to the bottom,
and again in September, if they have
roots seldom attain their full growth
until Michaelmas; and the latest crops
not until the following year. On the
arrival of frost, some of them must be
taken up; and after the removal of the
superfluous fibres, decayed leaves, &c.,
buried in sand, in a dry situation under
cover.
To save Sefd.—Some plants must be
left where grown, and allowed to run
in May. Their produce will ripen in
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acquired a straggling rank growth ; this
cause them to shoot afresh, and
acquire a strong growth before the July or August, when it must be cut.
arrival of severe weather. On the ap- dried, beat out, and stored.
proach of frost, if protection is atlorded PARSLEY-PIKRT. Erica aphanes.
to the plants by means of haulm or reed PARSNIP. Pastinaca sativa.
panels, so supported as not to touch Soil and Situation.—The soil in
them ; it will preserve them in a much which the parsnip succeeds best, is a
better state for use in winter and spring rich dry sandy loam, and the deepe
But a still more effectual plan is to take the better. The most inimical to it is
up some of the strongest and best curled gravel or clay. It is always beiieficiaL
plants in September, and to plant them to trench the ground two spades deep,
in pots, two or three plants in each, a little manure being turned in with the
using a rich soil. If these be placed in bottom spit.
a forcing house and abundance of li()uid In the isle of Guernsey, which has
manure given, they will be very siipe- long been celebrated for the fineness of
riorly productive throughout the winter,
To obtain Seed.— Nothing more is
its parsnips, sea-weed
chiefly employed.
is the manure
necessary than to allow some of the Of excrementitious manure that of
plants to run up in June; they should pigeons is the best. Decayed leaves
not, however, be allowed to stand are also very favourable to its growth.
nearer than eighteen inches to each
other. The seed ripens in early autumn,
and when perfectly dry, may be beaten
The situation cannot be too open.
Time and Mode of Sowing.—The
usual time for sowing is fi-om the end
out and
manure
stored. Soot is an excellent
for parsley, and preserves it
of February to the beginning of April,
but the earlier the better. It has heen
from root-canker, the only disease af- recommended in field cultivation to
fecting it.
sow them in September ; in the garden,
PARSLEY (Hamburgh). Petroseli- when sown at this season, they also
num sativum, var. latifolium.
attain a finer size, but many of them
Use.—This esculent is known by the run to seed. In the isle of Guernsey
name broad-leaved and /arg-e-roo