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The roots being selected, proceed to plant them in rows 

 two or three feet asunder, and about two feet from each other 

 in the row. The situation should be open, and as soon as 

 they are planted, a liberal supply of water should be given. 

 The seed will be ripe in September. 



The same directions are applicable for turnip-radishes, the 

 roots of which should be of an orbicular form, of good color, 

 and not of immoderate gi'owth. 



Radish-pods are in much request in most families for pick- 

 ling, a sufficient supply can be obtained for that purpose fi'om 

 the plants left for seed. Choose the best-formed pods. It is 

 of importance to gardeners to save as many of their own seeds 

 as the circumstances of their situation will admit of, not alto- 

 gether on the score of economy, but for keeping true or un- 

 mixed those seeds which are apt to sport into seminal varieties, 

 such as the radish, most of the brassica, beets, and some 

 others. 



SOWING CARDOONS. 



About the middle or latter end of the month, cardoons may 

 be sown. The seed may be either sown where the plants are to 

 remain, or on a bed of good earth, and afterwards ti'ansplanted 

 into the trenches. A deep light earth is most congenial to 

 the gi owth of cardoons, but it must not be of the richest kind. 

 The leaves being large, require a considerable space, and are 

 often blanched in the same manner as celery. They are chiefly 

 used in soups and stews. 



Trenches must be prepared on the same system as for celery, 

 either longitudinally or crossways, about four feet from centre 

 to centre, of the exact width and depth which a single spit 

 will make them ; the earth to be deposited on each side. A 

 little compost manure must then be spread at the bottom of the 

 trench, and the seeds dropped thinly, in a drill about an inch 

 and a half deep, di'awn exactly in the middle. The plants 

 Txay be thinned out to about four inches asunder, when they 

 have attained a few inches in height, but finally they must be 

 thinned out to eight or nine inches. 



