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Entrance gates give dignity to country places. 

 The Readers' Service will gladly offer suggestions 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1907 



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Radish Culture 



NOTHING will give as quick returns or 

 as satisfactory results as well grown 

 radishes in the small home garden. A 

 small block of rich, loose soil one yard 

 square will, if properly handled, give quite 

 a large supply of crisp, fresh radishes. The 

 greatest point is to grow them from seed to 

 table size in the shortest possible space of 

 time, as the more quickly the radish is grown 

 the better the quality. 



A soil resembling an ash heap in texture 

 made very rich with well-rotted manure or 

 even a good commercial fertilizer is desirable 

 for this purpose. It should be freshly dug 

 over and the radish seed planted thinly in 

 rows six inches or more apart. When the 

 young plants are well started, they should 

 be thinned out to stand at least an inch apart 

 in the row. If the seed is sown with care 

 so that the plants will not come up too thickly 

 in the row, this labor of thinning can be 

 largely avoided. The extra early sports, 

 such as the small round forcing varieties, 

 can in ordinary weather be had ready for 

 use in twenty to twenty-five days from plant- 

 ing the seed, and even quicker results may 

 be had under favorable conditions where the 

 small round radishes are pulled at the cherry 

 stone size. As soon as the radishes have 

 been pulled from the bed, it can be dug over 

 and replanted for succession. 



Larger varieties will require proportion- 

 ately more space and a longer period of time 

 in which to grow. The point I wish to make 

 is that where the area of the home garden is 

 limited, larger returns can be had by growing 

 your own supply of fresh salads, such as 

 radishes and lettuce, and the home produc- 

 tion of these will effect the greatest saving 

 in the market list, besides giving you radishes 

 and lettuce in a fresh, crisp state just when 

 they are needed for use. 



The three points essential in having rad- 

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 or loose soil in which to grow them ; second, 

 keeping the soil constantly stirred, loose 

 and fine during the stages of growth; and 

 third, frequent plantings of seed to keep 

 up a constant supply. The seed should 

 be sown at intervals of a week or ten 

 days. 



Pennsylvania. E. D. Darlington. 



Burning Indignation from the 

 South 



EVERYTHING that the "pessimistic" 

 and "embittered" Southerner wrote in 

 the April Garden Magazine about the lack 

 of Southern gardens was wrong. We have a 

 bushel of letters to prove it, enough to fill 

 this entire number, more than we can 

 acknowledge. 



Most of the letters merely burn; they do 

 not give addresses of Southern amateur gar- 

 deners who can write about gardening. 

 (They can all write forcefully about the 

 South.) We hereby thank them all. 



Our hopes are realized. We now know two 

 Southern amateurs who can and will write. 

 The man who stirred up a hornet's nest in 

 April really was a pessimist. Our readers 

 shall have the proof before long. 



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