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renew their seed by planting and cultivating the Seed Ball, which grows on the
vine. The manner of their managing it to keep up the excellency of that root,
would better suit a treatise on agriculture and gardening than this - and be
inserted in a book which would be read by the farmer, instead of his amiable
daughter. If no one treats on the subject, it may appear in the next edition.
Onions - The Medeira white is best in market, esteemed softer flavored, and not
so fiery, but the high red, round hard onions are the best; if you consult
cheapness, the largest are best; if you consult taste and softness, the very
smallest are the most delicate, and used at the first tables. Onions grow in the
richest, highest cultivated ground, and better and better year after year, on
the same ground.
Beets, grow on any ground, but best on loom, or light gravel grounds; the red is
the richest and best approved; the white has a sickish sweetness, which is
disliked by many.
Parsnips, are a valuable root, cultivated best in rich old grounds, and doubly
deep plowed, late sown, they grow thrifty, and are not so prongy; they may be
kept any where and any how, so that they do not grow with heat, or are nipped
with frost; if frosted let them thaw in earth; they are richer flavored when
plowed out of the ground in April, having stood out during the winter, though
they will not last long after and commonly more sticky and hard in the centre.
Carrots, are managed as it respects plowing and rich ground, similarly to
Parsnips. The yellow are better than the orange or red; middling siz'd, that is,
a foot long and two inches thick at the top end, are better than overgrown ones;
they are cultivated best with onions, sowed very thin, and
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