VEGETABLES PUMPKIN RADISH. 197 



PTTMPKIN. (Gucurbita 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 lieges of our cities are suspicious of all innova- 

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

 years yet before the masses will understand that the mod- 

 est, and sometimes uncouth looking, Squash is immeasure- 

 ably 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 have no reason 

 to allude to it here, except to denounce its cultivation or 

 use as a garden vegetable. 



RADISH. (Raphanus satimts.) 



Radishes are consumed in immense quantities, and are 

 one of the vegetables which we deem of no little import- 

 ance 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 appear- 

 ance and flavor. They are grown by us in various meth- 

 ods ; the most common is, after sowing a crop of Beets in 

 rows, to sow the Radish crop regularly over the bed 

 broadcast. The Radishes come up quickly, and are gath- 

 ered and sold, usually in six weeks from the time of sow- 

 ing. 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 off the same 



