. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. .The Canadian Horticulturist. 423 surface watered. By this latter method we always got a much ranker growth of top and a proportionately smaller growth of root. When pulled for market the tops would frequently weigh more than the roots, and many plants with unusually large tops would have a small, tough, spindling root, which was worthless. Under sub-irrigation the tops are comparatively small and the roots large, the latter more than double the weight of the former, and well developed in almost every plant. At the
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. .The Canadian Horticulturist. 423 surface watered. By this latter method we always got a much ranker growth of top and a proportionately smaller growth of root. When pulled for market the tops would frequently weigh more than the roots, and many plants with unusually large tops would have a small, tough, spindling root, which was worthless. Under sub-irrigation the tops are comparatively small and the roots large, the latter more than double the weight of the former, and well developed in almost every plant. At the very lowest estimate, our radishes yield fifty per cent, better in merchantable roots under sub-irrigation than they did by surface watering. The average weight of our radishes when marketed this year was a trifle over one-half ounce each. This would make three ounces per bunch, or two and one-quarter pounds per dozen bunches. The varieties grown in the forcing house were French Breakfast, Round Dark Red, Early Fame, and Red Forcing Turnip.—Prof. Lazenbv. HOW I GREW THE MAMMOTH SQUASH FOR THE WORLD'S FAIR. V land is naturally well drained, being of a gravelly for- mation, with about sixteen inches of clay loam on top. It is kept in good condition by an annual application of manure In order to grow a Mammoth Squash I pre- pared for each hill a compost of two barrow loads of hen manure, and four of good soil, mixed well together. This I did about the first of April, near the place intended for the hills. After two weeks I mixed the compost well again, and about the first of May I mixed thoroughly with four barrow loads of well-rotted manure, keeping all well covered from the rain. On the eighteenth of May I ploughed in a heavy coat of manure, and then dug out my hills seven feet in diameter and six inches deep. Then I mixed the best of the soil that was thrown out of the hill with the compost as it was thrown into the hill. In this way I made a hill about six inches above tne
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