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Yellow Summer Turnip or Golden Globe. | 
Yellow Summer Turnip or Golden 
Globe. This stands the heat better than 
the foregoing kind. It is of an oblong 
shape, and of a beautiful bright yellow 
color. It should be sown very thinly. 
Best adapted for summer and fall sowing. 
Brightest Scarlet or 34 Long. A de- 
cided improvement in earliness and color 
over other varieties of its class. Fit for 
use in about twenty-five days, when 
planted outdoors; has a small top, and 
no neck, bright scarlet color. 
Early Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped 
(Forcing). One of the handsomest of the 
turnip Radishes and a great favorite in 
many large markets for early planting 
outdoors. Roots slightly flattened on 
the under side, color very deep scarlet 
with a white tip; flesh white and of the 
best quality. 
Crimson’ Globe. A most valuable 
Radish, of European introduction. It 
grows quickly, and even when it attains 
a large size it remains absolutely tender 
and of perfect flavor to the very last. It, 
is of a beautiful deep crimson color, and 
in crispness and flavor it is unsurpassed. 
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Searlet Half Long French. 
‘Scarlet Half Long French. Bright 
scarlet color, and when well grown, from 
two to three inches long, very brittle and 
tender. 
White Summer Turnip. This is a sum- 
mer and fall variety. Oblong in shape, 
skin white, stands the heat well. 
Shippers’ Favorite. Extra early bright 
scarlet and round. The tops are small; 
the flesh very crisp and tender, it is the 
very best for the market garden. 
Chartier. A long Radish, deep crimson 
colored at the top, shading off lighter 
until at the bottom it becomes white. 
Glass or Cincinnati. This is a selection 
of the Long Scarlet, with exceedingly 
small tops, and grows from 6 to 7 inches 
long; of a beautiful bright scarlet color 
with a very delicate skin; one of the best 
and most attractive market varieties. 
ROQUETTE, 
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Roquette (Fr.) 
CULTURE.—Sow from September to March. 
the Cress in taste., 
It is used as a salad; resembles 
SALSIFY or OYSTER PLANT, 
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Salsifis (Fr.), Haferwurzel (Ger.), Ostra Vegetal (Sp.), Sassefrica (Ital.) 
CULTURE.—A vegetable which ought to be more cultivated than it is. 
prepared in different ways, and partakes of the flavor of oysters. 
sown in the fall of the year, not later than November. 
manured the spring previous, deeply spaded and well pulverized. 
It is 
It should be 
The ground ought to be 
Sow in drills, 
about ten inches apart, and thin out to three or four inches in the rows. 
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Hammers and Anvils for Beating French Blades. 
