Radishes — Under Glci ss. 



161 



French Breakfast. 



April. The crop is usually ready for pulling about 

 eight weeks from the sowing of the seed. The temper- 

 ature should be kept rather low, 

 say from 45° to 60°, Grown in this 

 manner it will be seen that three 

 crops may be grown under the 

 same glass each season. 



The soil required 10 grow them 

 to perfection is a loose, sandy 

 loam ; and it should be well 

 worked, with a liberal quantity of 

 well rotted manure thoroughly 

 mixed in. The seed is sown in 

 rows about four inches apart; 

 and the plants are thinned to 

 about two inches apart in 

 the row. When about three- 

 fourths of an inch in diameter, 

 they are pulled and bunched, 

 ten in a bunch. The price 

 varies from fifty cents to one 

 dollar per dozen bunches ; but, 

 even at the smaller price they 

 are considered a profitable 

 crop. 



When grown in hot -beds, 

 the Short Top Long Scarlet 

 is preferable to any other. It 

 is usually grown following a 

 crop of lettuce ; as, when the lettuce has been 

 grown the heat is then nearly spent, and the loam is in 



