i62 Bulletin 244. 



Classification and varieties: 



Carrots may be classified according to their shape, as follows: 



'Long; as Long Orange; White 

 Belgian, Long Red, etc. 



f Taper-pointed \ Half-long; as Dan vers Half-long, 



I I Carter 100-Ton, etc. 



I. Not cylindrical \ 



(.Short 



fLong 



c^. i. A Tt ^ ] Half-loncr; as Early Horn, Lob- 



Stump-rooted or Premorse \ bench Agricultural 



Short, as Early Frame 



r Taper-pointed / Long; as Altringham, Long Red, 



I \ and Japanese varieties 



2. Cylindrical "l 



j Ci 4- J ^ Ti / Long; as Vilmorin Coreless Long 



Lbtump-rooted or Fremorse-l -da 



Long means length more than four times the greatest diameter. 



Half-long means length more than twice but less than four times 

 the greatest diameter. 



Short means length less than twice the greatest diameter. 



The not cylindrical taper-pointed are usually called " taper-pointed " 

 and, as the name indicates, they taper gradually and comparatively uni- 

 formly from near the crown to the tap root. 



The not cylindrical stump-rooted are usually called " stump-rooted " 

 and taper somewhat from the crown downward, but stop abruptly and 

 the tap root arises from a comparatively flat surface. 



The cylindrical shape are round like a roller for at least two-thirds 

 of their length and then taper, either gradually as in the case of a taper- 

 pointed carrot, or else for a short space only and then have a stump root. 



The varieties may again be classified according to the color of the 

 skin as Red, Orange, Yellow or White; or according to the color of the 

 flesh, to which the adjectives apply. 



The taper-pointed varieties include many of the varieties grown for 

 stock feeding, among which may be ijientioned, Long Orange, Orange 

 Giant, Wiltshire Giant White, Yellow Belgian, all of which are long varie- 

 ties, and adapted for deep, friable soils, some of which have 25 per cent, 

 of the root above ground. Among half-longs adapted for heavier and 

 shallow soils are Carter 100-Ton, White Vosges, Danver Half-Long and 

 other half-long varieties. 



Some varieties which are taper-pointed and which have appeared 

 not to fit very well into either of these classes have been called inter- 



