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growers, tending to produce insect attacks. The free use of 
lime, salt or kainit is recommended as a preventive against 
insects. Sometimes it is necessary to avoid manure of any 
kind, on account of maggots, 
depending wholly on artifi- 
cial fertilizers. As a last re- 
sort the radish-bed must be 
removed to new ground, as 
the maggot renders radishes 
wholly unsalable. 
The green seed pods of 
radishes are sometimes used 
for pickling. The plant is 
closely related to the mus- 
tard. 
It is wrong to wait for 
radishes to grow large (ex- 
cept the winter sorts), as they 
are sweetest and most suc- 
culent when comparatively 
small. Crisp, sweet radishes 
always command ready 
money. 
SPINACH. 
Spinach (or spinage) is 
grown for its leaves, which 
are cooked in winter and 
spring for use as "greens." 
The leaf is sweet and palata- 
ble even when raw, but it is always stewed for table purposes. 
It is a cool weather plant, almost perfectly hardy. It may be 
sown in spring, for immediate use, or in the autumn for 
fall cutting, or for carrying over winter. 
China Rose Winter Radish. 
