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ground with little or no injury to the Beet crop. Another 

 method is, to sow them between the rows o£ Early Cab- 

 bages or Cauliflowers, where they also are gathered off so 

 soon as not to interfere with these crops. 



These are the methods practised in our gardens here, 

 where land is so valuable that we must make it always 

 carry double, and often treble, crops in a season. Radishes 

 are also grown in some places very extensively, 

 on land devoted exclusively to that purpose, 

 in spring. Their culture thus is exceedingly 

 simple. The ground being plowed and harrow- 

 ed well, the seed is sown, and the harrow again 

 run ovei', which places the seed at the proper 

 depth. But though the field cultivation of this 

 vegetable is simple, the labor of gathering, tying 

 up, and washing, preparatory for market, is 

 great, which detracts largely from the profits. 

 Perhaps the average receipts are $300 per acre, 

 but the expense, before this is realized, is prob- 

 ably one-half that amount. It must be remem- 

 bered, that, in many cases, it is an auxiliary crop, 

 interfering but little with our main sj^ring crops. 

 It is one of the vegetables convenient to ship, 

 and the early samples from Norfolk, Va., aver- 

 _ age $10 per barrel, of 200 bunches ; or about $1000 

 long scab- p er acre, which should be a great inducement 



LET SUOKT- . 



top. to southern cultivators, as there is but little 



danger of glutting the markets with fresh vegetables 



shipped from a southern to a northernport. Only a few 



varieties are cultivated, although the seed lists give dozens. 



Long Scarlet Short Top, — This is the variety grown 



