I22 RADISH. 
The walks should be from 14 to 18 inches wide, de- 
pending on the depth, and should have their sides made 
of 2-inch hemlock or cypress boards, fastened to sawed 
cedar or other durable posts. Good crops may be grown 
in even-span houses, and even a lean-to may be used, if 
proper facilities for heating and ventilating are present. 
The soil,—In order to obtain solid, crisp radishes, the 
soil must not contain too much manure, nor should sand 
predominate. Ordinary garden loam, containing about 7 
per cent clay, makes the best soil. To this should be 
added well-rotted manure in the proportion of one part 
manure to three or four parts soil. 
We prefer solid beds to benches, as the conditions are 
more uniform in the former and the expense of maintain- 
ing them is less. The beds should be from 6 to 8 inches 
deep, but good crops may be grown on 4 inches of pre- 
pared soil. In the latter case it is necessary to add a 
little manure after each crop, while if deeper beds are 
used the same soil will answer for the entire season’s . 
work. If the radishes are followed by cucumbers, the 
manure necessary for the latter will serve for next sea- 
son’s radishes, but it will be necessary in such cases to 
remove about 2 inches of this extra manured soil and re- 
place it with loam from the outside. The new loam 
should then be thoroughly mixed with the soil already in 
the house, and when this is accomplished the seed may 
be planted. 
Planting the seed.—Radishes which come into the 
market before Thanksgiving are seldom profitable, and 
for this reason it is best to postpone the first seed-sowing 
until about the middle of October. Previous to this time 
the house may be used for growing stock plants of let- 
tuce. By this we mean that lettuce sowed in the house, 
September 1, and transplanted 4 by 4 inches September 
15, will be large enough by the first week in October to 
transplant to other houses, where it is to head. 
Previous to sowing the radish seed, the ground should 
