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RADISHES THE OLIVE-SHAPED SORTS 



TUST as among the round ones, we find among olive- 

 * shaped radishes sorts with pure white skin, clear 

 red ones, and red sorts with white tips. Their quality 

 does not differ from those described on preceding page, 

 but all reach table size slightly later and will grow to 

 be larger without becoming pithy. 



White Olive-Shaped forms handsome roots with crystal 

 white, transparent skin, in twenty-two to twenty-five 

 days from date seeds are sown. They are at their best 

 when about three-quarters inch in diameter by one and 

 a quarter inches long. The same holds good with all 

 olive-shaped sorts, among which French Breakfast is the 

 most popular scarlet white tipped. Under favorable 

 conditions it is ready in twenty days after seeds were sown. 

 Scarlet Olive-Shaped (as shown above) may be termed the 

 mate to Ficks Scarlet Globe among the early round sorts. 

 It is ready in about thirty days and stays in "fit" condi- 

 tion longer than either of the others mentioned aJbove. 



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