AMERICAN HOME CARDEN. 



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by hanging them tip singly, or by packing them away in bins 

 or barrels with chaff or cut straw ; or they may be kept for use 

 in spring, when milk and eggs abound, by being stewed and 

 then dried upon a board in the sun or an oven ; or, still better, 

 by being stewed and put up in patent fruit-cans in the ordi- 

 nary manner. 



RADLSH. 

 French, Radis. Rave. — German, Retlig. — Spanish, Rabano. 



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FORMS OF RADISHES. 

 Fig. 79. 



a. Good long liadish. 

 h. Half long " 



c. Pear-sliaperl ■' 



d. Uncouth or club-form 



rose-colored winter 



.,, . > Mongrels. 



1 ; Chinege i 



F.adish. 5 



e. Inferior Turnip Radish. 

 /. Good 



rf. Inferior black fall '' 

 h. Superior " " 



Long Scarlet. Long White Naples. Scarlet Turnip. White 

 Tm-nip. Black Fall, or Spanish. White Fall. Chinese 

 Rose Winter. 



EETEF DIKECTIOSS. 



Sow in shallow drills or on light, rich soil, left a littlo 

 rough, and rake the seed thoroughly in. When well up, sow 

 ashes or poudrette pretty liberally upon them. 



Time : from the earliest spring to late autumn, omitting the 

 hottest months of summer, at the South or North. 



Of the various kinds of radish, the long scarlet and scarlet 



