Horse - Radish Experiments 



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Experiment I 



(Soil a clay loam) 



1. The cuttings — 



A. Cuttings 1-2 inches long, made from scraggly and much- 



divided roots, planted slanting. 



B. Cuttings 1-2 inches long, made from straight roots. 



c. Commercial sets, 6-8 inches long, planted top end up. 



D. Commercial sets, 6-8 inches long, planted bottom end up. 



E. Commercial sets, 6-8 inches long, planted horizontally. 



F. Cuttings 3^ inch long, from side roots. 



G. Cuttings 1 inch long, from side roots. 



2. The results — 



A. Crop very poor, the roots being long, small and prongy. 



The crop came up well, and the plants were vigorous. 

 Fig. 71 shows a plant six weeks old. 



B. Roots small, but fairly straight. Decidedly better crop 



than A. 



c. Crooked, irregular, rather short, but better than D and E. 



D. Few good roots, but better than E. The roots show clearly 



that the horse-radish cutting knows when it stands on its 

 head. On July 4, the plants looked as in Fig. 72, the 

 shoots coming from the lower (top) end of the cutting. 

 Fig. 73 shows the final product. The plants came up 

 quickly, and the rows were indistinguishable, when 

 growing, from c. 



E. Very branchy and worthless, with scarcely a marketable 



root. Fig. 74. The plants made the best stand of any 

 in the whole experiment. 



F. Roots long and finger-like, worthless for market. Fig. 75 



shows one of the young plants six weeks after planting, 

 and Fig. 76 is a full-grown root. The plants came up 

 slowly and made a poor stand. 



G. A good straight lot, better than any other. The plants 



came up rather slowly and the stand was not the best. 

 Fig. 77 shows a young plant, and Fig. 78 a mature root. 



