CHAPTER XII. 
THE RADISH. 
Admitting that the lettuce stands first in prominence and 
profit among the under-glass vegetables, in forcing houses as 
well as in frames, we feel warranted in giving second place 
to the radish. This humble vegetable cannot command the 
fancy prices so willingly paid in the winter season for fresh 
green cucumbers and plump red tomatoes, but it far out- 
scores these dainties in numerical consequence, and by sheer 
abundance out-weighs them in money value. 
WHITE-TIPPED SCARLET GEM RADISH. 
From the Esher forcing houses (heretofore mentioned) 
72,000 bunches of radishes were sent to the Philadelphia 
market during one winter recently, the instance being cited 
to show that there is a brisk demand in cold weather for the 
green things which formerly marked the advent of spring. 
Mr. Esher deserves the name of a radish specialist. 
The radish is everybody’s vegetable. It is a half-hardy 
thing, requiring a comparatively cool temperature for its 
perfect development. It adapts itself to hot beds and forcing 
houses quite well, but it objects to an over-heated forcing 
house as much as to an excessively exposed cold frame. It 
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