. Dreer's vegetables under glass : a little handbook telling how to till the soil during twelve months of the year. Vegetables; Cold-frames. CHAPTER XII. THE RADISH. Admitting that the lettuce stands first in prominence and profit among the under-glass vegetables, in forcing houses as well as in frames, we feel warranted in giving second place to the radish. This humble vegetable cannot command the fanc}' prices so willingly paid in the winter season for fresh green cucumbers and plump red tomatoes, but it far out- scores these dainties in numerical consequence, and bj' sheer abundance out-wei
. Dreer's vegetables under glass : a little handbook telling how to till the soil during twelve months of the year. Vegetables; Cold-frames. CHAPTER XII. THE RADISH. Admitting that the lettuce stands first in prominence and profit among the under-glass vegetables, in forcing houses as well as in frames, we feel warranted in giving second place to the radish. This humble vegetable cannot command the fanc}' prices so willingly paid in the winter season for fresh green cucumbers and plump red tomatoes, but it far out- scores these dainties in numerical consequence, and bj' sheer abundance out-weighs them in money WHITE-TIPPED SCARLET GEM RADISH. From the Esher forcing houses (heretofore mentioned) 72,000 bunches of radishes were sent to the Philadelphia market during one winter recently, the instance being cited to show that there is a brisk demand in cold weather for the green things which formerly marked the advent of spring. Mr. Esher deserves the name of a radish specialist. The radish is everybody's vegetable. It is a half-hardy thing, requiring a comparatively cool temperature for its perfect development. It adapts itself to hot beds and forcing houses quite well, but it objects to an over-heated forcing house as much as to an excessively exposed cold frame. It fi7. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dreer, Henry A. Philadelphia : Henry A. Dreer, Incorporated
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