. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. SALAD PLANTS. 97 horizontally in sand, the leaves will sprout and afford a salad when- ever required. Horace thus speaks of chicory :— " Me pascunt olivae Me cichorea, levesque ;—Ode 31, Book i. We must admit that the English do not understand the good qualities of the Radish {Raphanus sativus). In France, go where you will, you are sure to find, on the tables in the restaurants, during the summer and winter months, a glass of water containing young, de
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. SALAD PLANTS. 97 horizontally in sand, the leaves will sprout and afford a salad when- ever required. Horace thus speaks of chicory :— " Me pascunt olivae Me cichorea, levesque ;—Ode 31, Book i. We must admit that the English do not understand the good qualities of the Radish {Raphanus sativus). In France, go where you will, you are sure to find, on the tables in the restaurants, during the summer and winter months, a glass of water containing young, delicious fresh radishes. Here, radishes are rarely seen except in spring, and then they are so large and coarse that they can only be eaten by any one with strong teeth and a vigorous digestion. We obtain our first radishes in early spring, by sowing the seed in the same frames as our early potatoes ; afterwards, we obtain a crop in the orchard- house. Following these, we get some out of doors, and in some years, by sowing a few every week and by a proper application of the water-pot, we have had radishes till the autumn. There are many varieties, some with long tap roots (fig. 133, b), some turnip-shaped (fig. 134), and others are olive-shaped (fig. 133, a); but the French break- fast radish is, to my taste, by far the finest of all the varieties. For private gardens it is well to begin with the early frame, then continue throughout the summer with the olive-shaped and French breakfast; but a few seeds of the red and-of the white turnip radishes may be sown for use in spring. There is a late variety called the Black Spanish, which comes into use in autumn ; and Mr. Robinson has lately introduced from California a radish as large as a small beet-root. Seed was sown in the Horticultural Gardens in August, and roots were shown before the Committee in December, when they proved to be tender and of excellent flavour. H. Red Olive. Wood's early frame. Fig. 133.—Radishes, \ diam
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