58 DREER'S VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 
grows too many leaves and becomes pithy in one situation, 
and in the other case its growth is stunted or wholly checked, 
and under severe freezing it dies. Its proper temperature is 
from 40° to 65°, with plenty of fresh air. 
In rich soil, with sufficient water, it is a quick cropper, 
sometimes being ready for market in twenty-one days from 
the seed. 
Its period of sale covers the whole year, in its several 
varieties, though its best season is in the winter and spring 
months, when its merits as a crisp, toothsome relish cause it 
to be most fully appreciated. 
The seed is usually sown in the bed where it is to grow. 
Such is the common practice near Philadelphia. Some of 
the Yankee gardeners, however, have a different plan, for 
they transplant the radish from its seed bed, just as they do 
most of their crops, in order to increase the development of 
the root. 
The effect of transplanting anything is to check top 
growth, and to encourage root growth. 
Whether the practice of transplanting the radish does or 
does not encourage the growth of small feeding roots to an 
objectionable degree, and whether or not the expense for the 
labor is warranted in the results secured, are open questions 
on which we find a difference of opinion. They are points 
which individual gardeners must decide for themselves. 
To transplant or ‘‘prick out’’ radishes is not a slow 
operation, and an expert can pass a thousand plants per 
hour through his hands. It is, of course, a labor which 
is to be avoided unless it pays in cash results. 
It is good economy to work a winter forcing house to 
its fullest capacity, saving the time of the house (whenever 
possible) by doing all the seed sowing in smaller and less 
expensive quarters, and even transplanting young plants 
temporarily into beds less extensive and valuable than those 
of the final forcing house. 
