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The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



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French Breakfast Radish. 



former producing small, stringy roots, and the latter mostly 



leaves. The best soil for the purpose is a porous, easily-worked 



one, rich in humus from previous generous dressings of manure, 



and brought to a fine tilth. The ideal soil is one approximating 



closely to that used in the 

 French garden, which con- 

 sists entirely of well-broken 

 and sifted manure from ex- 

 hausted hot-beds. The seed 

 should always be sown thinly 

 and not be covered with more 

 than fin. of soil, made firm 

 on the surface after sowing, 

 as the roots do not bulb up 

 well when the soil is too loose. 

 Never allow Radishes to be 

 short of water, and draw 

 them immediately they are 

 large enough for use. 

 Crops from Hot-Beds. The earliest crops of Radishes are 



grown in frames on hot-beds. It is seldom that a frame is used 



exclusively for them, sufficient 



early supplies being usually 



taken when they are sown with 



other crops. In this way, owing 



to the quickness with which they 



form, a profitable catch-crop of 



Radishes can be had without in 



any way interfering with the 



more slowly-moving occupants 



of the frame. This method is 



described in detail on pages 93 



and 94, and can be easily applied 



to most crops grown early in 



frames, either warm or cold. 



A frequent mistake, however, in 



trying to grow early Radishes copyright, V.A. & Co. 



in this way is in sowing too Scarlet White-tipped Turnip 



thickly. This is fatal to success Radish. 



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