256 6F ESCULENTS. SECT. XV. 



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Thin the small turnep sorts to four inches distance, 

 and the large to six. Sow the two last sorts in June, 

 July, and August. In August, or September, sow 

 also some of the other sorts of radishes, for winter 

 use. Turnep radishes are rarely sown on hot-beds ; 

 but the small red sort will be found an agreeable 

 early crop, and may stand as thick as the spindle 

 footed kinds. 



The ground should be well dug for radishes, espe- 

 cially the long-rooted sorts, and the seed carefully 

 covered a full half inch, leaving none on the top (if 

 possible) to lure birds, which frequently do much 

 mischief to the crop. It is a troublesome mode, but 

 radishes when drilled are safer, and being thinned in 

 the rows by hand they come fine. Make the drills 

 for the tap rooted sorts, from two to three inches 

 asunder, but for the round wider. It is also a good 

 method to sow radishes on beds four feet wide, and 

 the mould being made fine on the top, beat the 

 seeds in with the teeth of a wooden rake till none 

 appear, and then lightly draw the back of the rake 

 over, to fill up the holes ; or, having sown the bed, 

 cover with mould from the alleys, or earth previously 

 drawn aside. 



A sprinkle of radish seed may be frequently sown 

 among other crops, as broad- cast spinach ; and the 

 ground at spring that is designed for cauliflowers, 

 may very properly be sown with them, just before 

 the plants are to be set out, or between rows of 

 beans. 



Draw the roots for use in a regular thinning way, 

 and those that are left will become the larger for it. ~ 



Radishes are sometimes sown thick for eating while 

 very young in the seed leaf] with other sallading. 



SALSAFY, though but little cultivated, is a useful- 

 vegetable. Its young shoots are eat as asparagus in 

 spring, and its long white roots in autumn and w4nter r 



