Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation

ts which we cultivate for their roots were not naturally endowed with the root portion of their struc

arieties of these that we meet with in cultivation must be considered as derivatives from original wild forms, obtained by cultivative processes; that is, collecting their seed, plan

is, that portion of their structure which grows downwards-root. Besides this, they are remarkable for their capability of producing varieties-a fact which, united with a constancy in t

Of the former we have more than thirty sorts grown by the farmer, and as many peculiar to the garden; whilst there are probably more than twenty well-recognized sorts of swedes. Of beets, with mangel-wurzel, we have almost as great a variety; so also of c

oots of Wild Parsn

he spring of 1848, in drills about eighteen inches apart. As the plants grew they were duly thinned out, leaving for the crop, as far as it could be done, the specimens that had leaves with the broadest divisions, lighte

snip. 2nd. St

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he apex of the leaf 0 8 Whole length from the

s 0 0 3?4 Breadth

0 1 Length of

r, dark green. Petiole and leaflet

re taken from fine roots of the wild parsnip of the first year's growth; that is to say, just at the same time as a crop parsnip would be a

ese the best shaped were reserved for seeding; and having been kept the greater part of the winter in sand, some six of the best were planted in another plot for seed. The seed, then, of 1849 was

ving a resemblance to the Guernsey

oot. "Hollow-headed" of the ga

aped root. "Turnip-rooted" of t

ts, that is, fingers and toes; but still each of them offered oppor

following engraving of a specimen of o

Parsnip, five gener

endency to form divided tap-roots; otherwise the shape

boiling; the flavour, too, though much stronger than that of t

t, had got to complain of this root becoming more and more tasteless. That this was so our own expe

ear to year, we at length obtained so perfect in form, clean in outline, delicate in skin, and unexceptio

from the Messrs. Sutton, after having received from them the

rieties of parsnips in our trial-ground, your "Student" was decided

nip of 1861. Two-thi

hed outline and solidity of structure recommend it as a good variety, whilst its flavour has been highly extolled by the lover of this, to some, favorite root. In size it is scarcely large enough for

ok the first prize for this root at the Internationa