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THE BOOK OF VEGETABLES 



Blanching in storage is practiced with late-maturing 

 plants which might be injured by frost. Having tied 

 them up and partly covered them, as soon as blanching 

 has begun take up the plants with balls of earth, and 

 store close together in a dark cellar, where they will 

 complete their blanching, and will last longer than if 

 blanched out-of-doors. 



CARROT (Daucus Carotd). A biennial plant grown 

 as an annual, and cultivated for its roots. The virtues of 

 the Carrot, especially of the improved varieties, are not 



Fig. 34. Carrot seedlings. Natural size. 



generally appreciated; but the short varieties are now 

 widely grown in the East, and in England and France 

 the Carrot is so popular that it is forced under glass. 

 It is very hardy to frost. Varieties are short (early), 

 half-long (medium season) and long (late). The short, 



