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and when cut small, by poultry>,‘The leaves are said to be excellent for milch cows, if mixed with other green meat, otherwise(a very extraordi- nary assertion) they would be too nutritious, and abate the quantity of milk. To prevent this root from degenerating, it requires an annual change of soil from light to heavy, or the reverse.

Sow the seed very thin, covering it an inch only —-from the beginning of March to the middle of April, ina well-prep red bed, and as soonas the plat its reach the size of a goose-quill, transplant, dibbling them upon a fine level tilth, well manured, eighteen inches apart, in eighteen inch rows. The

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root 1s net to be eee b ut the leaves cut at the top, and the upper part left about half an inch out of the ground eine see strike root in twen-

ty-four bcs; and after one hoeing, will take care of themselves, by smothering all other vegetation. They may be sowed until the! beginning of July,

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In the beginning of July, when the leaves are hered for the

first time, by putting the thumb into the inside,

about a foot long, they may be gat

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and stripping them off close to their insertion into the stem.‘Those which bend towards the earth,

are to be gathered; those forming the heart of

the plants, to remain. The earth around the plants should now be well stirred, care being ta- ken to leave the crowns of the roots uncovered,

an incl-<TC See Sm- Ay ore: an inch or two, forming round them a hollow, ale

like a bason nine or ten inches diameter. Store the roots dry, like potatoes, before any frost, care beitg taken that they aré not bruised in the car- riage, which occasions their speedy decay. Those

roats

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