140 GARDEN PLANTS. PART IT. 



the more economical one, is to sow in drills. The drills should 

 be in rows, three or four inches apart, and the seed should be 

 buried in them a quarter of an inch deep. After the sowing 

 the ground should be well trodden down, or the Kadishes will 

 not be well formed. When up, the young plants may be 

 thinned out to three or four inches apart. 



The seed usually germinates in three days, and the Kadishes 

 are ready for pulling in somewhat less than a month afterwards. 

 Consequently repeated sowings for succession-crops had better 

 be made at intervals of ten days or a fortnight between. 



" The turnip-rooted," Captain Weston states, " transplant very 

 well if taken up young, and give much finer Kadishes than the 

 seed-bed, being larger, milder, and more crisp." 



Kadishes require to be well watered during growth, and 

 the soil upon becoming at all dry and caked should be hoed. 

 There is a description of Radish, apparently indigenous to this 

 country, produced sometimes of an enormous size, and much 

 consumed by the natives in the Upper Provinces during the 

 Cold weather. It is extremely mild and tender, but totally 

 devoid of the fine flavour for which the best European kinds 

 are distinguished. 



Kaphanus caudatus : Kat-tailed Kadish, is a singular vegetable 

 that has lately come into cultivation, and is remarkable for the 

 strange-shaped pods it bears, which soon reach a length of as 

 much as three feet. The plants when up will needs have to be 

 thinned out to about a foot and a half from each other. 



MALVACEAE. 



Abelmoschus esculentus. 



O C H E O O K K A G B B O. 



Dhenroos Ram- Torooee. 



This vegetable, so common in all parts of India, grows to 

 about two or three feet high, and is familiar to most persons for 

 the large handsome yellow flower it bears. The erect horn- 

 like pods, when cooked for the table, are of an agreeable 

 flavour, but on account of their slimy nature are not generally 

 in favour with Europeans. This sliminess may, however, be in 



