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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Large White Summer Turnip Radish 

 Q natural size). 



Sowings may be made 



form, but grow nevertheless pretty rapidly, so that, by making 

 ^ successional sowings, a con- 



tinuous supply of fresh 

 tender Radishes may be 

 kept up all through the 

 summer and autumn. 

 These varieties do not 

 usually keep long. They 

 are sown in drills, from 

 1 6 to 20 in, apart, and the 

 seedlings are thinned out 

 to a distance of from 6 

 to 8 in. from one another, 

 according to the size of 

 the variety sown. They 

 require no attention except 

 occasional waterings. The 

 roots of most of the varieties are fully form_ed in from six weeks 

 to two months from the time of sowing, 

 from ]\Iarch until August. 



Large White Summer Turnip 

 Radish. — Root rounded or top-shaped, 

 2 in. or more in diameter and length 

 when w'ell grown ; skin white; flesh white, 

 rather tender, and slightly pungent : 

 leaves rather long, broad, half-erect, much 

 more abundant and larger than those of 

 the Small or Forcing Radishes, especially 

 exceeding them in the size of the midribs 

 or stalks, which form a rather broad 

 neck at their junction with the root. 

 The roots of this variety form pretty 

 soon, and are generally fit for use in 

 from thirty-five to forty days after 

 sowing. In the L'nited States they grow 

 under the name of the Early White 

 Box Radish, or Philadelphia White Box 

 Radish, a Radish very similar to it, but 

 smaller, and possibly a link between the 

 White Turnip-rooted Radish and the 

 one just described above. 



Stuttgart Early Giant White 

 Turnip Radish. — A larger variety and 

 somewhat more flattened in shape than 



the preceding one. It 

 shaped, and often 3 or 



is regularly top- 

 4 in. in diameter, 



Stuttgart Early Giant WTiite 

 Turnip Radish natural size). 



and over 3 



m. m 



depth. 



