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EErORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST OF THE 
Eoot regular oval, white in the lower half, with a semi-translucent 
appearance, faintly tinged with green about the small neck; surface 
very smooth; tap-root well defined, very slender; — foliage scanty; 
petioles scarcely jmler than the leaves, hairy, sometimes faintly tinged 
with purple towards the base; — flesh white, translucent, mild and 
tender; — in season quite early. 
This radish may be used either for forcing, or the open ground. 
Mixed with the scarlet varieties, the roots form a pleasing contrast. 
Correctly figured in Les pi. pot., p. 524; Veg. Gar., p. 490. 
B. Root grayish. 
No. 20. OLIVE GRAY, Sib., '83. 
Syn. Gray Olive-Shaped, BURR. 
A variety of the olive-shaped radish having a dark brown or grayish 
skin, which is finely reticulated with whitish cracks. The root grows 
mostly below ground; tap-root pretty well defined; neck medium; — 
foliage very abundant; petioles more or less tinted with purple; — 
flesh pure white, with translucent rays, crisp, tender, and rather 
piquant; — season early. 
C. Root red. 
No. 21. CHINESE SCARLET WINTER, Veg. Gar. 
Syn. Chinese Rose, Sib., '83 : Chinese Rose-Colored Winter, Vil. : Rose 
China Winter, Vil. : Rose Chinese Winter, Brill : Rose-Colored Chinese, 
BURR: Scarlet China Winter, Vil., '84: Scarlet Chinese Winter, Burr; 
Thor., '83: Fr., Badis rose d'hiver de Chine, VIL., '84: Ger., Chinesicher 
rosenrother Winter-Rettig, Vil. 
A very distinct variety. Root short cylindrical, often swollen 
towards the lower end, very regular, rounding rather abruptly to the 
neck and to the tap-root; growing 1 to 2 in. above ground; scarlet or 
rose, mixed a little with russet about the rather large neck; well 
developed samples 5 in. long, 2 in. in longest diameter; surface very 
smooth with the exception of some conspicuous white striae; tap-root 
remarkably well defined, rather thick, often with an expansion some 
distance below the root, white, shaded with rose; — foliage distinct, 
low and spreading, dull green; segments of leaves very numerous, 
often somewhat folded on the midrib, with irregularly crenate, or 
nearly entire margins, and undulate borders; petioles scarlet, some- 
what glaucous, with a few whitish hairs; — flesh white, with numerous 
translucent rays, remarkably firm, but very crisp, rather piquant; — 
season very late. 
Correctly figured in Les pi pot., p. 534; Veg. Gar., p. 498. 
