Lexicographical Neighbors of Parsnep
Literary usage of Parsnep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"Tin" parsnep is a biennial plant with a fusiform root like the carrot, and nearly
equal ... The beans are first dibbled in, and afterwards the parsnep seed ..."
2. The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist: Comprehending by Francis S. Wiggins (1840)
"THE parsnep is a biennial plant, with a fusiform root like the carrot, ...
parsnep leaves may be mown off before taking up the roots and given to cows, ..."
3. The Family Kitchen Gardener: Containing Plain and Accurate Descriptions of by Robert Buist (1861)
"It will grow tolerably well under such protection. parsnep. ... THE parsnep is
a biennial plant; that is, a plant that lives two years, seeds, and dies, ..."
4. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"The parsnep is excellent food for cows, being highly nutritive, and giving to
the milk a ... The parsnep is seldom attacked by diseases, or by insects. ..."
5. The New American Gardener: Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of by Thomas Green Fessenden (1832)
"The writer above quoted asserts, that, in the island of Jersey, parsnep " is
eaten with meat, with milk, and with butter; but not, as is the common mode of ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"parsnep (pastinaca saliva) ; s. well- known culinary vegetable, a native of the
south of Europe, and now naturalized in many parts of the U. States. ..."
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