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is supposed to act as an incentive to wine drinking, whence 

 the Botanical name of the genus. If required as a raw salad 

 it. should be eaten young. When they are fully grown, the 

 roots are usually dressed in the manner of Skirrets, or Scor- 

 zonera, in Germany, where it is sold regularly as a kitchen 

 vegetable, under the names of Rapunzel, Rapunzel Zellerie, 

 Wurzelrapunze, Rapontika. It was sent to the Society by 

 Mr. Booth of Hamburgh, as the Yellow-rooted CEnothera. 

 In France the genus is named Onagre, and this particular 

 species is sometimes called Jambon des Jardiniers, and under 

 this name it was received by the Society from M. Vilmorin, 

 being also called Onagre Bisannuelle. It does not however 

 appear as an esculent in the Bon Jardinier, nor in any other of 

 the French works on gardening. The seeds should be sown 

 in May, in a moist shaded border, best perhaps under a north 

 aspected wall. If it is grown in too dry and exposed a part 

 of the garden, or sown earlier in the spring, it is apt to run to 

 flower during the summer, which renders the roots useless, 

 for they then become hard. 



Long Salmon Radish. 

 Seeds of this variety have been received from English, 

 Dutch, and French seedsmen under the following names: 

 Salmon, Early Salmon, Early short-topped Salmon, Long 

 Salmon, Rave Rose or Saumonee. In the description of the 

 varieties of Spring Radishes, published in the third volume of 

 the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, page 440, this 

 sort is considered synonymous with the Scarlet Radish, from 

 which however it differs, and it is now noticed that the error 

 which appears to have been there made, may be corrected. 



