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Market Gardening, 



just about the right condition for growing a crop of 

 radishes. It is more suitable tlian a fresh bed ; which 



would be likely to stimulate 

 an excessive growth of 

 the tops. 



They are grown in rows 

 four inches apart, and 

 thinned to three inches in 

 the row : as this variety 

 (being, when pulled, about 

 the size of clothes-pins) 

 will not so well bear crowd- 

 ing as the French Breakfast. 

 Sometimes a crop of carrots 



is grown with them ; and, 

 when this is done, every 

 third row is left out for the 

 carrots. After the radishes 

 are taken off, the carrots 

 will occupy the ground to 

 [advantage. The glass can 

 Long scartet Radish. \^^ taken from thc bed early 



in the spring and used for some other crop. 



In some sections the turnip variety is grown, similar 

 methods of culture being employed ; but, for the 

 Boston market, those previously mentioned are raised 

 almost exclusively. 



For out-door culture the long-rooted variety is the one 

 chiefly selected. This also succeeds best on a sandy 

 loam, worked very fine and light. It is usually grown 

 in connection with some other crop. The land beiuji; 



