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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June 1 



GIANT RADISH 

 from JAPAN 



Cut from Actual Photograph of Radish. ^^ ^fl^-^ /^ 



Grows 1^ Feet Long — Seeds FREE to Our Readers 



What do you think of a variety of radish ishes 15 to 16 inches long, and the flavor 

 that weighs thirty pounds, which is often is good. I have been intending to send to 

 a foot and a half long and more than Japan for seed. Now, I will buy them of 

 eight Inches through, which is as tender you, or subscribe for your paper — in fact, 

 and sweet during the hottest July weather you can trade with me on your own 

 as the earliest spring radishes, and which, terms." 

 notwithstanding its immense size, never 



becomes hot or pithy; which can be eaten XhpCA ^PPflc JirP FrPP with Jl THfll 

 raw like an apple, can be cooked like tur- IHeSC OeeOb dFC FFfe WllH d lUdl 

 nips, and when pulled late in fall will 

 keep late into winter as sweet and crisp 

 as when pulled. Add to this the fact that 

 the tops, which grow to be two to three 

 feet long, make fine "greens," and you 

 have a pretty good description of the giant 

 radish. Sakurajima, a recent introduction 

 from Japan. 



The Fruit-Grower has secured 

 callv all the seeds of this splendid radish 



Subscription to The Fruit-Grower 



Here is the way to get the seeds: Send 

 me 25 cents for a six months' trial sub- 

 scription to The Fruit-Grower, and a pack- 

 age of the seeds will be sent you abso- 

 practi- lutely free. This trial offer gives you The 

 Fruit-Grower six months at Half Rate. 



in America, and I want you to have a Regular rate $1.00 a year. 



oackage for planting this season. There is The Fruit-Grower is the leading frjit 



plenty of time to plant, for this is a hot- paper of America; it is devoted solelv to 



horticulture, and has 70,000 readers who 

 swear by it; It is clean and up-to-date — 



to my attention by one of our readers on no whisky or medicine advertisements. 



Long" Island. He has grown Sakurajima Ask the editor of this paper about The 



weather radish, and must be planted late 

 This splendid new radish was first called 



radish for two seasons, and says that last 

 vear they averaged fifteen pounds 



Fruit-Grower. He knows the paper well, 

 and knows I could not afford to make an 



weight and every radish was tender and offer of this kind unless I knew that both 

 sweet, and did not get hot at any time. The Fruit-Grower and the Sakurajima 

 Hon. W. J. Bryan, seeing our advertise- radish will make good. Send 25c, coin or 

 ment. writes: "You are the man I am look- stamps, at my risk, for a six months' trial 

 ing for. I saw the Giant Radishes in subscription, and seeds will be sent by re- 

 Japan, and want some seed. I saw rad- turn mail FREE. Write Today. 



JAMES M. IRVINE, Editor The Fruit-Grower, Box L, St. Joseph, Mo. 



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