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of quinces, mixed with twenty -five 

 pounds of sugar, and fermented, 

 make a delicious wine. Domestic 

 Encyclopedia. 



QUINCUNX ORDER, accor- 

 ding to Mr. Miller, is applied to a 

 plantation of trees, disposed origi- 

 ginally in a square, consisting of 

 four trees, one at each corner, and 

 a fifth in the middle ; which dispo- 

 sition, repeated again and again, 

 forms a regular grove, wood,or wil- 

 derness ; and, when viewed oblique- 

 ly, presents straight rows of trees, 

 and parallel alleys between them. 



QUlTCtl GRASS, otherwise 

 called Couch Grass. The only ef- 

 fectual way of extirpating this grass 

 is by horse and hand rakes, and 

 burning it. 



R. 



RACK, a frame made to hold 

 fodder for cattle, to prevent their 

 trampling it under foot, and wasting 

 it. 



Those racks which are under 

 cover, as in sheep houses, horse sta- 

 bles, &LC. may be constructed of al- 

 most any kind of wood ; but those 

 which stand abroad should be of 

 such timber as lasts long in the 

 weather. The rails may be larch, 

 or white cedar, and the cross sticks 

 white oak. Such a one will en- 

 dure the weather many years. 



RADISH, Raphanus, a pleasant 

 root, which has an attenuating vir- 

 tue, and is a good antiscorbutic. 



I have had better success with 

 those sown as late as June or July, 

 than with those sown in the spring. 

 The earliest are apt to be destroy- 

 ed, or greatly injured, by the white 



maggots ; to which sea water is an 

 antidote ; but with respect to this 

 root not quite effectual. 



To have a constant succession of 

 radishes at table, the seeds should 

 be sown once a fortnight, from April 

 to August. But in midsummer they 

 sooner grow sticky and strong, than 

 in spring or fall. They must there- 

 fore be eaten while they are young. 

 I have had better success with those 

 sown in August, than in any other 

 month. In hot houses they may be 

 raised any month in the year. Or 

 those raised in autuinn may be kept 

 in dry sand, til for eating in the 

 winter. 



As radishes are uncertain in their 

 growth, the best method is to put 

 in the seeds between rows of other 

 plants ; and they are so soon pul- 

 led up, that they will not incom- 

 mode the plants among which they 

 grow. 



Radishes that are for seed re- 

 quire much room, as they grow to 

 a large size. For this purpose some 

 of the most thrifty ones should be 

 left standing ; or else be transplant- 

 ed to a place where each shall have 

 as much room as near a yard 

 square. The ripeness of the seed 

 is known by the pods turning brown. 

 For this purpose the seeds must be 

 sown early in the spring, because 

 they ripen slowly. 



" This root being liable to be 

 eaten by worms, the following me- 

 thod is recommended for raising 

 them : Take equal quantities of 

 buck-wheat bran, and fresh horse 

 dung, and mix them well and plen- 

 tifully in Uie ground by digging. 

 Suddenly after this a great fermen- 

 tation will be produced, and num- 



