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form a rosette. The fibrous taproot is always cut off, and a 
bit of the stem is left to serve as a handle. Most persons 
prefer radishes ice-cold. Often a little chopped ice is placed 
in the dish. When cut into thin slices they make tempting 
sandwiches. 
Spinach. Spinach is in season early in the spring, and 
again early in the summer. For summer use put the seed in 
as soon as the ground can be worked, giving it some poultry 
manure or some nitrate of soda, as is advised for all leafy 
crops ; liquid manure gives good results. A quick growth 
here as usual produces crisp, delicate leaves. Plant the seed 
one inch deep and not too thick ; a three-foot bed will give 
astonishing returns. Here is one person’s experience in spin- 
ach growing : "It germinated in eleven days ; in five weeks 
the row was thinned, the stockiest plants being left. These 
thinnings from three feet of seed sown gave me nearly one- 
half peck of fine greens." For early spring use the seed 
is sown in the preceding August or September. When 
the ground begins to freeze, cover it with several inches 
of hay. The plants will then start growing at the earliest 
touch of spring. 
Prepare spinach for the table in the following way : Wash 
it in several changes of cold water to remove all sand and 
grit, and heat slowly in a closely covered saucepan till the 
juices start. Then boil hard one hour. Drain it well, chop 
fine, and then toss it about with a tablespoonful of butter in 
the frying pan. Serve smoking hot with drawn butter. Then 
you may truthfully say, as did some of the old-time cookbooks 
in winding up their recipes, " This is delicious." 
Tomatoes. The tomato is a brilliant example of what in- 
telligent cultivation will accomplish for a plant. This one is 
a native of warm countries. Its ancestors came originally from 
South America. There it was a queer little fruit, growing 
