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118.

127. A Candle burnt in a
close Room makes it appear
full of water.

Rx. [recipe] SpermaCeti & Fat of [Eels?] or Vipers
[a?] a ℥ [ounce] iv [4]. Make a Candle in a Mold
& the Room must be small

128. Radishes to produce
Seasons for Sallad.

For the MORNING CHRONICLE

Method practiced at PASSY to cultivate RADISHES
for SALAD, and to have them at all seasons.

TAKE the seeds of the common radish, and
lay them in river water, to steep for twenty-four
hours, then put them quite wet into a small linen
bag, well tied at the mouth with a pack-thread.
If you have steeped a large quantity of seeds,
you may divide them into several bags. Expose
this bag in a place where it will receive the greatest
heat of the sun, for about twenty-four hours, at
the end of which time the feed will begin to grow,
and you man then sow it in the usual manner in
earth well exposed to the heat of the sun.

Prepare two small tubs to cover each other
exactly. These may be easily provided by saw-
ing a small cask through the middle, and they
will serve in winter; in summer one will be suffi-
cient for each kind of earth that has been sown.

AS soon as you have sown your seeds, you must
cover them with your tub, and at the end of three
days, you will find radishes of the size and thickness
of young lettuces, having at their extremities
two small round leaves, rising from the earth, of
a reddish or yellow colour. These radishes, cut
or pulled up, will be excellent, if mixed with
salad. They have a much more delicate taste
than those common radishes which are eat with
salt.

By taking the following precautions one may
have them in winter, and even during the hardest
frosts. After having stepped the seeds in warm
water, and exposed them to the sun, as already
directed, or in a place sufficiently hot to make
them shoot forth, warm two tubs; fill one of
them with earth well dunged; sow your seed in
it, and cover it with the other tub: you must be
careful to sprinkle it with warm water as often as
it may be necessary. Carry the two tubs, closely
joined, so as to cover each other, to a warm vault
or cellar, and at the end of fifteen days, you
may gather your salad.