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saudy soil is best adapted to them, although they can be grown on 

 almost any good land. It is advisable to delay putting out the 

 plants in the spring until the weather becomes settled, — say about 

 the twentieth of May. The Bell (or Bull Nose), Squash, and Cay- 

 enne are the principal varieties. 



Potatoes. — These are almost entirely grown as a farm crop, so 

 we will not give them much attention here. Their culture has 

 been so much discussed in agricultural papers and books that it 

 would seem as if little more could be said. Yet everything has 

 not been learned about the crop, for we believe no one yet knows 

 effectual preventives of the scab and other diseases which affect 

 the tubers. And there are many points in the culture of potatoes 

 which will no doubt be improved upon in time, so that we shall 

 raise larger and better crops. 



Radishes. — This vegetable is grown quite extensively, being 

 forced in hot-beds and hot-houses and, in spring time, grown out 

 of doors. The seed is sown under glass in rows about four inches 

 apart. The French Breakfast variety is the one chief!}' raised in 

 houses. For outside beds the Long Scarlet is sown. Sometimes 

 this is the sole crop, and sometimes one row in three is sown to 

 carrots, which come along after the radishes are pulled. The rad- 

 ishes are sown in rows four inches apart, and thinned out to two 

 inches in the row. About three pullings are generally made, after 

 which the carrots are large enough to thin out ; and these occupy 

 the ground until their turn comes for market. The Long Scarlet 

 radishes are pulled when about the size of clothes-pins. They are 

 tied in bunches of ten each, and sold by the dozen bunches. 



The kinds most extensively grown in this vicinity are the French 

 Breakfast, Scarlet Turnip-Rooted, Scarlet Olive-Shaped, and Long 

 Scarlet. The White Turnip-Rooted and Black Spanish are grown 

 in other places. The soil for radishes of all kinds must be quite 

 sand}', thoroughl}' pulverized, and well manured. 



IloKSE-EADisH. — This vegetable is grown quite largel}' at pres- 

 ent. It is planted in ridges ; one row on each ridge, at intervals 

 of three feet between the rows, and the plants a foot and a half 

 apart in the row. The plants are grown from pieces of the root, 

 about half an inch long, which must be placed in the ground about 

 two inches deep. The ground must be thoroughly worked, free 

 from stones, and well manured. It is usuall}' grown for the sec- 

 ond or third crop, before which may come spinach, or beets, or 



