274 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



PUMPKIN. (Cucurbita Pepo.) 



The Pumpkin is yet offered in large quantities for sale 

 in our markets, but it ought to be banished from them 

 as it has for some time been from our gardens. But the 

 good people of our cities are suspicious of all innovations 

 in what is offered them to eat, and it will be many years 

 yet before the masses will understand that the modest, 

 and sometimes uncouth looking, Squash is immeasurably 

 superior, for all culinary purposes, to the mammoth, 

 rotund Pumpkin. The Pumpkin is an excellent agricul- 

 tural plant, of great value for cattle, but I only allude 

 to it here, to denounce its cultivation or use as a garden 

 vegetable. 



RADISH. (Raphanus sativus.) 



Eadishes are consumed in immense quantities, and 

 are one of the vegetables which we deem of no little im- 

 portance as a market crop. To have them early, a light 

 rich soil is the best ; heavy or clayey soils not only delay 

 their maturing, but produce crops much inferior, both 

 in appearance and flavor. They are grown by us by 

 various methods ; the most common is, after sowing a 

 crop of Beets in rows fourteen or fifteen inches apart, 

 to sow Radishes between. The Radishes come up quick- 

 ly, and are gathered and sold usually in six weeks from 

 the time of sowing. The Beets at this time have only 

 become large enough to be thinned, and will not be 

 ready for at least a month later, so that the Radish 

 crop is taken from same ground with little or no injury 

 to the Beet crop. Another method is, to sow them be- 

 tween the rows of Early Cabbages or Cauliflowers, where 

 they also are gathered off so soon as not to interfere with 

 these crops. 



