The walks should be from 14 to 18 inches wide, de- 

 pending on the depth, and should have their sides made 

 of a-inch hemlock or cypress boards, fastened to sawed 

 cedar or other durable posts. Good crops may be grown 

 in even-span houses, and even a lean-to may be used, if 

 proper facilities for heating and ventilating are present. 



The soil. In order to obtain solid, crisp radishes, the 

 soil must not contain too much manure, nor should sand 

 predominate. Ordinary garden loam, containing about 7 

 per cent clay, makes the best soil. To this should be 

 added well-rotted manure in the proportion of one part 

 manure to three or four parts soil. 



We prefer solid beds to benches, as the conditions are 

 more uniform in the former and the expense of maintain- 

 ing them is less. The beds should be from 6 to 8 inches 

 deep, but good crops may be grown on 4 inches of pre- 

 pared soil. In the latter case it is necessary to add a 

 little manure after each crop, while if deeper beds are 

 used the same soil will answer for the entire season's 

 work. If the radishes are followed by cucumbers, the 

 manure necessary for the latter will serve for next sea- 

 son's radishes, but it will be necessary in such cases to 

 remove about 2 inches of this extra manured soil and re- 

 place it with loam from the outside. The new loam 

 should then be thoroughly mixed with the soil already in 

 the house, and when this is accomplished the seed may 

 be planted. 



Planting the seed. Radishes which come into the 

 market before Thanksgiving are seldom profitable, and 

 for this reason it is best to postpone the first seed-sowing 

 until about the middle of October. Previous to this time 

 the house may be used for growing stock plants of let- 

 tuce. By this we mean that lettuce sowed in the house, 

 September i, and transplanted 4 by 4 inches September 

 15, will be large enough by the first week in October to 

 transplant to other houses, where it is to head. 



Previous to sowing the radish seed, the ground should 



