RADISH. $5 
must be taken not to break off the stems, but leave these attache d to them. • 
otherwise they will soon commence rotting, at the places where the stems 
were broken off.— Fanner’s Assistant. They may likewise be preserved in 
mows of hay or straw or in any dry situation, in which they are secure 
from frost. 
Use. —Loudon says o the pumpkin, “Though commonly cultivated in 
gardens for curiosity, yet, in some of the country villages in England, the in¬ 
habitants grow it on dunghills, at the backs of their houses, and train the 
shoots to a great length over grass. When the fruit is ripe, they cut a hole 
in one side, and, having taken out the seeds, fill the void space with sliced 
apples, adding a little sugar and spice, and then, having baked the whole, 
eat it with butter.— Neill. Pumpkin-pie, Abercrombie says, is very com¬ 
mon [in Great Britain, and proverbially so in New England.] On the con¬ 
tinent the fruit is a good deal used in soups, and also stewed and fried in oil 
and butter.” Its culinary uses in the United States are too well known to 
need description; but some may not be aware that “ Pumpkins are excel¬ 
lent for fattening horses. They, however, do not relish them at first; and 
therefore must be kept from feeding till they are hungry, before the pump¬ 
kins are offered to them, and let a little salt be first sprinkled on this food; 
when they will soon grow fond of it, and eat it readily without salt ” 
RADISH. 
Raphanus sativus. — Rave, Fiv —Ret tig, Ger. 
The garden-radish is a native of China, and introduced into England in 
;584. 
Varieties.— Mr. Russell’s Catalogue contains the following:— 
Early short-top scarlet, {a superior 
sort ), 
Early frame, 
Long white summer, or Naples, 
Furple-short top, 
Long salmon, 
Cherry, or scarlet turnip-rooted, 
White turnip-rooted, 
Yiolet-colored turnir-rooted, 
Black fall, or Spanish. 
Propagation .—All the varieties are raised from seed. 
Soil and situation .<—The soil should be light and mellow, well broken by 
digging. A scattering of the smaller growing sorts may be sowm among 
some broad-cast crops of larger growth, such as spinage, lettuce and onion; 
it may also be drilled between wide rows of beans, or on ground intended to 
be sown with a late spring crop. 
Times of sowing .—“ To have a constant succession of radishes at table, the 
