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PARSNIP
, botanically known as Pastinaca sativa (or Peucedanum sativum), a member of the natural See also:order See also:Umbelliferae, found See also:wild in roadsides and See also:waste places in See also:England and through-out See also:Europe and temperate See also:Asia, and as an introduced plant in See also:North See also:America
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It has been cultivated since the See also:time of the See also:Romans for the See also:sake of its See also:long fleshy whitish See also:root, which has a See also:peculiar but agreeable flavour
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It succeeds best on a See also:free sandyloam, which should be trenched and manured in the previous autumn, the manure being well buried
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The See also:seed should be sown thinly in See also: |
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