PETER HENDERSON & CO.'S CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 71 



RADISH. 



German, Bettig, Radieschen. — French, Radis, Rave, Petit Rave. — Spanish, Rabano. 



Kadishes thrive best in alight, rich, sandy loam; heavy or clayey soils not only delay their 

 maturity but produce crops much inferior, both in appearance and flavor. For a successive sup- 

 ply, sow 'from the middle of March until September, at intervals of two or three weeks. For an 

 early supply, they may be sown in a gentle hot-bed in February. 



Per pkt. Per oz. 14 lb. Lb. 

 Long Scarlet Short-Top. The standard variety for market and 



private gardens 5c 10c. $0 25 $0 85 



Scarlet Turnip. Bather more delicate in flavor than the above; 



excellent for summer use. 5c. 10c. 35 1 25 



White Turnip. Excellent for summer use; of mild flavor 5c. 10c. 30 1 00 



Yellow Turnip. Grows to a large size; excellent to stand the heat 



and drought of summer 5c. 15c. 40 1 25 



Gray Turnip. An excellent variety for summer use 5c. 15c. 50 1 50 



Long White Naples. Flesh white, crisp and mild 5c. 15c. 40 1 25 



French Breakfast. A variety of quick growth, very mild and 



tender 5c. 15c. 40 L 25 



Olive-Shaped. Scarlet. Oblong shaped, flesh rose-colored; a good 



summer variety 5c. 15c. 40 1 25 



Rose China Winter. (See Gut.) Bright rose-color, flesh, firm and 



piquant ; excellent for winter use 5c. 15c. 50 150 



Black Spanish. One of the hardiest and best for winter use 5c. 15c. 40 1 25 



White Spanish. Rather milder in flaver than the preceding 5c". 15c. 40 1 25 



California Mammoth White. A giant white-fleshed Fall Radish, 



of excellent quality 10c. 30c. 1 00 3 00 



Raphanus Caudatus, or Rat-Tail Radish. This remarkable vegetable produces in a short 



time pods from two to three feet long, which may be used either boiled, as a salad, or in 



pickles. The pods, either cooked or uncooked, should be used when about half grown, 



when they have a most agreeable flavor. Per packet, 10 cents; per ounce, 50 cents. 



SaUASH. 



German, Kurbiss. — French, Gourge. — Spanish, Galabasa Tontanera. 



Squashes are of luxuriant and vigorous growth, and although they will grow readily on al- 

 most any soil, they will well repay generous treatment. Like all vegetables of this class, it is 

 useless to sow until the weather has become settled and warm. Light soils are best suited for 

 their growth, and it is most economical of manure to prepare hills for the seeds in ordinary man- 

 ner, by incorporating two or three shovelsful of well-rotted manure with the soil, for each hill. 

 For the bush varieties, from three to four feet each way, and for the running sorts, from six to 

 eight feet. Eight or ten seeds should be sown in each hill, thinning out after they have attained 

 their rough leaves, leaving three or four of the strongest plants. 



Per pkt. Peroz. % lb. Lb. 

 Yellow Bush Scalloped. An early market variety, excellent for 



shipping 5c. 10c. 30c. $1 00 



White Bush Scalloped. (See Gut.) A sub-variety of the above 



principally differing in color 5c. 10 30 1 00 



Bush. Summer Crook-Neck. Early, productive, and of good 



quality; fruit orange-yellow, covered with warty excrescences. 5c. 10 30 100 



Butman Squash. (See Novelties.) 5c. 20 60 2 00 



Boston Marrow. A much esteemed variety, coming in about ten 



days later than the bush and crook-neck sorts ; a good keeper, 



and of unsurpassed flavor 5c. 15 50 1 50 



Hubbard. A general favorite, and more largely grown as a late 



sort than the other ; of large size ; flesh fine grained, dry, and of 



excellent flavor. . 5c. 15 50 1 50 



Marblehead. An excellent new variety, resembling the Hubbard. 



The flesh is of rather lighter color than that variety, while its 



combination of sweetness, dryness, and delicious flavor, is re- 

 markable. It yields equal to the Hubbard, and its keeping- 

 qualities are said to be better 5c. 15 50 1 50 



Mammoth Chili. Grows to a large size, often weighing over two 



^ hundred pounds; excellent for all uses 10c. 40 1 25 4 00 



Winter Crook Neck. A variety largely grown in some of the 



Eastern States ; flesh close-grained, sweet, and fine-flavored. 



Plant in hills nine feet apart 5c. 10 30 1 00 



Turban, or Turk's Cap, Flesh orange yellow, thick, fine-grained 



and well-flavored; an excellent variety for use in the fall and 



early winter 5c. 20 60 2 00 



