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have cut away the green growth around it, (but not all of it) and strew sand
between them. In one of the other spaces, place onions, and proceed as will, the
celery; then put in parsnips, then horse radish, etc., always remembering to put
in the sand over and between them. Put them in the cellar to keep over the
winter, and if they contract a disagreeable cellar taste, you have only to put
them in water a few hours before using, to restore them.
To keep roots in the ground.
If you have access to a garden, or some other plat of cultivated soil, you may
keep parsnips, carrots, horse radish and many other kinds of roots, simply by
digging holes 1 yard deep, and depositing therein the things you want to
preserve, 1 kind in each hole. Fill the holes with the earth and pack it well
and then put up a stick to indicate what kind of root there is in each hole.
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