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Small Salading. 
Sow small salading generally about once every week or fort- 
night; the sorts are lettuce, cresses, iBustard, rape, radish, &c. 
Dig a bed of light mellow earth for these seeds, and rake the 
surface fine. Draw some flat, shallow drills, sow the seeds therein, 
each kind separate, and cover them lightly with earth. 
Water them moderately if the weather should be dry, which 
will greatly promote their growth. 
For more particulars respecting small salading, see pages 125 
and 197. 
Radishes. 
Thin the general crops of radishes where they have arisen too 
thick, leaving the plants about two or three inches asunder, and 
clear them from weeds. 
Radish seed, both of the short-topped, salmon-coloured, and 
white Naples' sorts, should be sown at three different times this 
month, by which means a constant supply of young radishes may 
be obtained, allowing about twelve days between each time of 
sowing; choosing at this season an open situation for the seed; sow 
it evenly on the surface, cover, or rake it well in, and the plants 
will come up in a few days, and be of proper size for drawing in 
three or four weeks. 
The crops of early radishes in general should be often watered 
in dry weather; this will promote their swelling freely, and will 
prevent their growing hot and sticky. 
Sow a thin sprinkling of radish seed among other low growing 
crops; such will generally be found very good. 
Turnip-rooted radishes, of both the white and red kinds, should 
now be sown, and treated as directed in page 188. Thin such of 
them as were sown last month to two or three inches apart. You 
may, likewise, sow some of the white Spanish radishes; but the 
general time for sowing that, and the black winter kind, is June, 
July, and August. 
Sowing Spinage. 
Continue now to sow seed of the round-leaved spinage every ten 
or twelve days, agreeably to the directions given in page 188, which 
see. Hoe the spinage sowed in the former months, and thin the 
plants to three, four, or five inches distance. 
Carrots and Farsneps. 
Carrots may now be sown for a full crop; but in order to have 
tolerable sized roots, in some reasonable time in summer, let the 
seed be sown the beginning of the month. 
Where, however, a supply of young carrots are required, it is 
proper to perform three different sowings this month; the first in 
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