V. PURSLANE, RADISH. 



them, should be fastened down to the ground with pegs 

 at every two or three feet, and the runners will then send 

 new roots down into the ground. You know when the 

 pumpkins are ripe by their turning yellow, and striped, 

 and when the leaves begin to die. If you wish to save 

 the seed, you must let the pumpkin be quite ripe, and 

 then manage the seed as in the case of the Cucumber. 

 Different sorts must not grow near one another. If they 

 do, they will mix. 



1/3. PURSLANE. A mischievous weed, eaten by 

 Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing else. 

 Both use it in salad, that is to say, raw. 



174. RADISH. There are two distinct species of 

 Radishes, the tap-rooted, and the turnip-rooted. Of the latter, 

 there are red and white. The former are all red, some, 

 however, of a deeper dye than others. The great thing 

 in the case of radishes, is, to have them early in the 

 Spring, and, for this purpose, the tap-rooted kinds only 

 are used, as they come quicker than others. In the 

 open natural ground, radishes are sowed in the latter end 

 of February, or early in March, and a few once a fort- 

 night, until the beginning of May. If sowed later than 

 that, they are hot and disagreeable, and very few people 

 care for them. The turnip-rooted sorts should be of 

 the latest sowings -, but even they become hot, if sowed 

 after the first of May. I shall hardly prevail upon any 

 body to sow radishes in little drills as directed for cab- 

 bages ; but that is the best way j and, as soon as they 

 are up, they should be thinned to an inch apart ; for, 

 if thicker, you gain nothing in point of quantity, and you 



