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crimson skin, and tender, rose-colored flesh. The best of 

 all in quality ; good for forcing and the early crop. 



Yellow Slimmer* This is a turnip-rooted variety, named 

 from its color, and will stand the heat better than any 

 other variety. 



Black Winter or Spanish. Turnip-shaped, black, and 

 very large ; sown in August or September with turnips. 

 It can be gathered and stored for winter. The flesh is 

 white, hard, and hot. The White Spanish is white outside, 

 and the flesh milder than the Black. 



Chinese Rose-colored Winter. Conical ; bright rose- 

 colored ; flesh solid ; texture fine ; rather hot. 



White Chinese. Outside white ; bulb inversely turbi- 

 nate ; flesh milder than the last three, tender, and excel- 

 lent ; the best winter sort. The Scarlet Oval Rose and 

 White Chinese are the best sorts. 



Culture. Radishes like a rich, sandy loam, dug a full 

 spade deep, but succeed in any good garden soil. Their 

 culture is very simple. If manure be freshly applied, it 

 should be at the bottom of the soil, or the roots will fork. 

 They are often sown in beds four or five feet wide, thinly 

 broadcast ; but it is better to put them in drills about 

 eight or ten inches apart, an inch deep, scattering the seed 

 thinly, which may be in beds devoted to this crop, or made 

 between the wider rows of beets, parsnips, onions, carrots, 

 as well as spinach, peas, beans, Irish potatoes, yielding 

 large crops, and taking up no room available for other 

 purposes. 



From the first of November until March a succession 

 of the Oval Rose, or Scarlet Short-top varieties, can be 

 grown under glass. All that is required is a bed of good, 

 rich loam, watering them occasionally, and giving air ev- 

 ery day, when it does not absolutely freeze. Let the sash 

 be off every mild rain, and let the earth come within 



