In the Garden On one country farm radish seed is
now being sown along with parsnip, for the reason that while the main crop germinates very slowly the radish is almost as quick as cress. Consequently the rows become apparent in good time and hoeing with a horse is possible. If it had to be postponed till the slower seeds germinated the weeds would have been insuperable. The idea is worth copying in principle by gardeners The quick seeds give a crop that may be cleared before the other ha! grown to any appreciable size and the hoe can be kept busy. Both onions and leeks, which are among the sluggards, are often stnotherec in weeds which cannot be dealt with till the rows are distinct. It is of course, the standard habit of both Dutch and French gardeners the technical sense) to sow a number of crops simultaneously within the same frame or cloche, and that is the secret of the enormous yield per square yard.
W. 131tacli THostas.
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