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ei-s in growing Radishes. We always sow the seed 

 thinly in the rows with early Beets and Carrots. The 

 Radishes are pulled and sold before the Beets or Car- 

 rots need the room, and at the same time it gives us 

 a chance to cultivate these crops earlier than we 

 otherwise could. This plan can be just as well fol- 

 lowed in the private garden ; and by sowing a few 

 Radish-seeds in the rows with each " row-crop " 

 planted, the table can be kept supplied with young 

 Radishes during the season. 



On Long Island, they frequently devote the whole 

 field to Radishes, sowing the seed broadcast and har- 

 rowing it in, or in rows one foot apart, using about 

 iive pounds of seed to tlie acre. This crop is taken 

 off in full time to prepare the ground for a crop of 

 late Cabbages. 



Of late years, the profits from growing Radishes 

 have not been large. It is considerable trouble to 

 prepare them for marltet, especially the long Scarlet, 

 making the flat bunches, washing, &c., &c. With a 

 good crop, Radishes seldom pay more than one hun- 

 dred to one hundred and fifty dollars an acre. We 

 have known many and many an acre that did not 

 yield fifty dollars. 



When they first come into market from the open 

 ground, near New York, they bring two dollars per 

 hundred bunches ; thej' fall very soon, as the supply 

 increases, to one dollar or fifty cents a hundred, and 

 are often dull at these prices. 



The Radish is frecpiently retarded, and, in fact, 

 the crop destroyed by a grub, Anthomyia rapKani. 

 This little insect deposits an egg hi tlie root of tlie 



