OF ONE ACRE. 
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spare, it is an excellent plan to sow two or three rows 
in the hotbed at each planting of seeds, which will 
furnish them for use several weeks before they can be 
had from the garden. 
There is a general impression that radishes do not 
do well except in very light soil, while my experience 
is that it is mainly a matter of manure and cultiva¬ 
tion, and that good radishes can be raised early in the 
season on the heaviest of soils, though later in the 
season they will not succeed unless the soil be favor¬ 
able. Where “ Night Soil” can be obtained and com¬ 
posted with ashes, it will make the finest kind of 
manure for the radish bed; but it should be applied 
with judgment, as it will burn up any crop if applied 
too heavily. This manure can hardly be so readily 
applied in a special location in the garden worked 
by horse power, and I strongly disapprove of making 
“ beds” in such a garden; it should be kept as level 
as possible, that all the cultivation may be done with 
the wheel and horse hoes; while “ beds ” mean lots of 
slow hand work, and hard beaten ground in the paths 
and edges, that are perpetual sources of weeds; 
while in the level garden the location of rows and 
crops can be continually shifted, every portion of the 
ground being used, and none escaping cultivation. 
For the earliest plantings, the small, very early 
kinds should be used, and these will grow the finest 
radishes of the season, fresh, crisp, and slightly pun¬ 
gent. For summer use, the large summer kinds, of 
very mild flavor, should be selected. These latter 
should be planted from the first of June until the 
first of August, after which I begin to sow the small 
