The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-03
Short Chapters on Vegetable Culture.

The hAD1SHs
The poorest of all vegetables, perhaps, is
the radish, and yet it is one that pays the
market gardeners near the large town and
cities a very good profit. 1t comes very
early in the spring, when it is very eagerly
sought after by the masses who have no
greenhouses or suitable cold frames for
growing them for themselves. In southern
ATTITUDES open air paintings furnish radishes
early enough as a general rule, but by SOW
ing the seed in cold frames In January they
can be had several weeks earlier.
Except for very early crops the radish
can be grown as a combination crop with
several other vegetables, and special land
need not be devoted 20 it. The seed can be
sown along in the same row with beets or
carrots or satisfy in early February with
out any injury at all to these crops. 1t is
really help to these crops to mix radish
with them, as the latter come up very
promptly and grow off and mature before
the beets or satisfy get to growing good
The radlsh plants mark the rows plainly so
tnat the cultivator can hoe or harrow the
crop very promptly without danger of COW
ering any of the plants. Radish tops make
very fair quality of greens in the abb
sence of other plants. 1t is not equal to
spinach or mustard, but il is far better than
nothing.
A light, sandy soil we'll enriched is the
most suitable for growing the incest quality
OF radishes. Clayey soil will not make good
roots usually. There is nothing better In
the way Of manure than good old cotton
seed or stable manure compost worked in to
depth Of several inches.
Two varieties most generally used are the
long scarlet snort top" and the French
breakfast An excellent variety is the
CHARTER" Even after it becomes very
large 1t is good for use. Some varieties get
pethy and unfit for use much sooner than
other kinds There are more than eighty
named sorts catalogued, but there is little
or no difference between many of them.
his Is the case with all vegetables, how
ever. The same variety has dozen or
score OF different names given by as many
dlIIerent seedsmen.
But little cultivation is required to make
a crop Of radish. One or two hoeings or
ilEht sweeplngs makes the crop. The mar
KEY gardener finds it very tedious one to
market, and for this reason many refuse to
VultlVate It, 1t requires considerable time
10 WASH and bunch them, which takes off
most OF the profit.
Iue rhubarb Tor pie plant
ms vegetable should be in every garden,
pu1 we are sorry to say it is very generally
9-0eSN' OuCe WelA ESTABLISHED IL Is, ike
aspMaragus, a perennial pleasure, and it is
WEI; ven worth the trouble involved in establish
lug a planting Of it. The quickest way of
astonishing plantation is to buy the
plahts from those who make a business of
SOWING them for sale, or it may be propa-
e eF oy dividing the old roots, breaking
- ~ each eye or bud with root or two at
r Iacned. II planted carefully in moist soil,
Kissing each eye grmly into the soil, it will
eho" Us readily as any other cutting. 1t is
DLIeater Tor the grower to raise his own
EE' rnat though it involves a years delay.
1-ae esu seeds should be obtained early in the
30 ti .e auo sowed in drills in the open ground,
~ ~. 'po thlckly and well cultivated until
tJisooef' then the plants should be
s-a 9 81 up AID transplanted to where they
-. W remain. The rows should be four
apart, and the plants set three TO four