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RADISHES— THE OLIVE-SHAPED SORTS 
JUST as among the round ones, we find among olive- 
shaped radishes sorts with pure white skin, clear 
red ones, and red sorts with white tips. Their quality 
does not differ from those described on preceding page, 
but all reach table size slightly later and will grow to 
be larger without becoming pithy. 
White Olive-Shaped forms handsome roots with crystal 
white, transparent skin, in twenty-two to twenty-five 
days from date seeds are sown. They are at their best 
when about three-quarters inch in diameter by one and 
a quarter inches long. The same holds good with all 
olive-shaped sorts, among which French Breakfast is the 
most popular scarlet white tipped. Under favorable 
conditions it is ready in twenty days after seeds were sown. 
Scarlet Olive-Shaped (as shown above) may be termed the 
mate to Vicks Scarlet Globe among the early round sorts. 
It is ready in about thirty days and stays in “fit” condi- 
tion longer than either of the others mentioned above. 
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