CULTURE OF CARKOTS. 57 



IX. 



Experiments on the Culture of Carrots. % Rlr. W. Waliis 'Sjadcra^wT 

 Mason.* 



SIR, .:3Mi»«t.o 



'T^HE pur|3ort of this communication is to explain with a 

 degree of accuracy, the general, and as far as possible 

 the best method to cultivate carr-ots:. I shall therefore 

 endeavour to set aside those prejudices, Avhich frequently 

 occur in cv€ry branch of agriculture ; while I give a brief 

 statement of particulars, which experience, assisted by nu- 

 merous comparisons, has induced me to Consider as best 



for adoption for rearins the plants, as well as mo?t iudici- 



, , y- • n \ T The carrot i» 



©us in the application of the vegetables when ciiltivated. much cuitivat- 



In Suffolk, the culture of this highly valunble root has ^^ '»^"*'^"'* 

 been carried on for ages ; but of late years it has very much 

 increased, and furnishes the best criterion of its worth ; 

 various have been the attempts to extend the benefit more 

 generally throughout the kingdom, but with little success; 

 imaginary difficulties arising in the minds of cultivators, 

 which I hope to obviate by a more minute detail, the ob- 

 servance of which will enable any practical fanner, on a 

 proper soil, to raise a Crop, which will at once be productive 

 of great private advantage and public utility. On most / 



farms it will be found, that a cc^r.siderahle proportion of 

 the produce from the best land (the meadow and upland 

 pasture) is consumed by the laborious cattle, and the lean 

 and rearing stock during the winter months. '1 he c not 

 system may be carried on, on inferior arab'e lands, and the 

 produce, by judicious application, will be found to txcel 



* From the transactions of the Society of Arts, Vol XXIII, just pub- 

 lished. The Society awarded the bilver Medal for thii Coramuaication. 



Vol, XV. Sept, 1806. I fat 



