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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



fourteen inches apart, and thin to three inches in the row 

 as soon as the young plants are well up. There are many 

 desirable early varieties, as French Breakfast, Olive -shaped 

 Scarlet, Early Scarlet Turnip and Red Turnip, 

 the red or pink varieties usually having the 

 preference for table use. Long Scarlet Short- 

 top is a standard late variety. 



In summer, the small spring radishes do not 

 thrive, but larger and white varieties are then 

 used, as White Strasburg and Stuttgart. There 

 are winter radishes, as California Mammoth 

 White, Long Black Spanish, Scarlet Chinese, 

 which may be stored as 

 beets and turnips are. 



The radish is very 

 liable to the attacks of 

 grubs, which are the 

 lavas of a small fly. 

 These insects burrow in 

 the root, and make it 

 "wormy." The only ef- 

 fective escape is to plant 

 in soil which has not 

 been infested within two 

 or three years. Constant 

 rotation will keep the 

 pests in check ; but they 

 also work on turnips. 

 When the insects are 

 troublesome, the crops 

 should be grown on op- 

 posite sides of the garden in successive years, and when 

 they are very bad it may be necessary to give up growing 

 radishes and turnips for a time. The bisulphide of car- 

 bon treatment recommended for cabbage is effective, but 

 would hardly pay with radishes. 



237. French Breakfast 



and Olive-shaped 



radishes. 



238. Good 



horse-radish 



root. 



