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turnip are most highly esteemed. The white varieties are 

 sometimes supposed to be milder, and to bear the heat better 

 than others, and on this account to be preferable for summer 

 use, but we ai-e not sure that experience sustains these no- 

 tions. 



Radishes of a piu-ple color are almost always very strong, 

 even acrid, 1nit all kinds are liable to become so by neglect or 

 error in their cultivation. 



The various forms intermediate between the long and timiip 

 radish are generally the result of accidental admixtui-e, and 

 any one who chooses may reproduce them from original som-ces. 

 They are merely fanciful, having no peculiar merit, except that 

 the pear-shaped or half long varieties might perhaps succeed 

 on soils where the longer kinds would fail. 



The black or white fall or Spanish radish should be sown 

 and gathered at the same time as common tm'nips, and may be 

 stored in sand for winter use. It is a laro;e, coarse-lookino' 

 radish, but of fine, solid textm-e and good quality. 



The Chinese rose-colored winter radish is of pretty appear- 

 ance and good f|ualitj% and may be sown at the same time or a 

 little later than the black Spanish. 



Eadishes should lie sown in light, rich soil, in drills about 

 eight inches apart and half an inch deep, and covered careful- 

 ly Ijy raking along the drills, and adding, if it seem necessa- 

 ry to settle the earth aljout the seed, a gentle pressure with 

 the Ijack of the rake, or by means of a boai'd, which may be 

 laid over it and piessed with the foot ; but in experienced 

 hands a slight beating with the Ixack of the rake will be the 

 fjuickest mode. Or the seed may be sown broadcast, being 

 thinly scattered over the ground and thoroughly raked in. If 

 the weather be di'y when you sow, water lightly each evening 

 until the seed sprouts, and continue it afterward if it seem 

 needful. 



Sow ash compost or poudi-ette upon them at least twice dm-- 

 ing their growth, or water occasionally with liquid manm'e, 

 and, if so^vn in drills, hoe carefully between them. Radishes 

 may be so^\^Q at inteiTals of one or two weeks, from the earliest 

 opening of spring until late fall, and at the far South through 



