fASnAV.- HORtUS JAMAICENSIS. isi 



''ii -warm from the cow jthey pot nearly half a pint of the iefusion to about fourteen gal. 

 ions of milk. 



See Artichoke. 



Cardt-us S'ee Blessed Thistle. 

 Carex ^'tt Sedges. 



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CARROT. DAUCUS. 



Cs,. Sf OB. 2. Pentandria dig^/nia. Nat. OR. UmhcUaite. 

 Ge?. char. Calyx umbel, universal ; corolla universal, diflbrm, somewhat rayed^ 

 all hermaphrodite \ floscules of the disk abortive ; stamina capillary ; ai.thers sim- 

 ple ; the pistil has an inferior small germ, two reflex styles, with obtuse stigmas 

 there is no pericarp ; fruit ovate, often hisped on every side, with stiff hairs, bi- 

 partite i seeds two, sornewiiat ovate, on one side convex, hisped, on the other flat. 



C.\ROTA. CARROT, 



Seeds hisped ; petioles nerved underneath. 



There are several varieties, the white, the orange, and the purple carrot ; the orange 

 is the best, and thrives extremely well in Jamaica, where it is often found of as large a 

 size as need be ; as large indeed as they grow in England. 



They are propagated by seeds, but the imported seeds, when good, are certainly 

 preferable. Tfie carrots produced from the Jamaica seeds are smaller, of a paler 

 colour, and degenerate in proportion as they are removed from the original stock, so 

 that, in time, without a fresh supply of seed, they would be entirely lost, or so indif- 

 ferent as not to be worth cultivating. They delight in a loose soil, and the beds where 

 they are sowed should be well dug, that the roots may meet as little obstruction as pos- 

 sible in going down, so as to fork them. Too mucli dung occasions them to be worm- 

 eaten. The hairiness of the seeds makes the sowing them difticulf, as they stick toge- 

 ther ; but when sdwn they should be trod in with the feet, and the ground raked level 

 over them. 



Raw carrots are given in England to children troubled with worms. They pass 

 through most people, but little changed. A poultice made of the roots hath been 

 found to mitigate the pain and abate tlie stench of cancerous ulcers. Crickets are very 

 fond of carrots, and are easily destroyed by making a paste of powdered arsenic, wheat- 

 meal, and scraped carrots, which ir.ust be placed near their habitations. By their 

 strong antiseptic qualities, a marmalade made from carrots has also been found useful 

 in preventing and curing the sea scurvy. The seeds have been reckoned carminative 

 and diuretic ; and were formerly much used as a remedy for the stone, but are at pre- 

 sent disregarded. Carrots were first introduced into England by the Flemings, in the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



CASHAW. MIMOSAo 



' Cl. 23, OR; I. Polr/gamia monoecis,. Nat. o?.,~-'LomerJe(a, 



xs Gek; 



