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fir of the Rockies. The picea pungens grows ragged at thirty 

 years of age and is thrown on the brush pile. 



The concolor, like the Christian, grows more beautiful with 

 age. I have seen them seventy-five feet tall and four feet 

 through, glistening in robes of emerald and silver. 



The trouble has been with sowing seed from the lower alti- 

 tudes of Colorado. The pungens grows at an altitude of 10,000 

 or 11,000 feet and often the concolor grows beside them. Now 

 if you could find an honest seed collector who would secure seed 

 for you from those higher altitudes you could raise something to 

 depend on. Then growing at this high altitude is the beautiful 

 sub alpina, which ought to grow well in the north. 



Radish Growing. 



CHAS. HOFFMAN, MARKET GARDENER, WHITE BEAR. 



Radishes are grown more or less all through the year. In 

 winter greenhouses produce them, and later towards spring they 

 are raised in hotbeds and cold frames until still later they are 

 raised in the open. 



To produce good, crisp radishes three things are essential, 

 abundant moisture, rich, mellow soil and good seed. These three 

 conditions being present, it only lacks one other feature to insure 

 success, and that is, right seeding. 



In the small turnip-shaped varieties about twelve to eighteen 

 seeds to the foot of row should give good results, provided the 

 seed shows high germination. If it does not, it should be sown 

 somewhat thicker. The summer varieties, like White Strasburg, 

 should be sown thinner, as they form a larger plant, six to twelve 

 inches to the foot, insuring a good result. Winter radishes, like 

 the various Black Spanish sorts, should not have more than six to 

 the foot to have well developed roots. Sow seed from one-fourth 

 to one-half, or even three-fourths inches deep later in summer. 

 Of all radishes only the small turnip-shaped is the commercial 

 article, all other kinds having only local and limited sale. Of 

 the turnip-shaped, both the red and the white tipped are about 

 in equal demand. We usually cultivate them but once, and that 

 as they are forming their second or third leaves. When they 

 reach about three-fourths in size we pull them, tie them in 

 bunches of from six to twelve, wash clean with a soft brush and 

 market next morning. It pays to have them as attractive as one 

 can have them, and to that end one should make a sowing about 

 every week, as the third or fourth pulling does not compare with 

 the first or second, neither in looks nor in quality. 



