CARROTS. 



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CARROTS. 



heat, or the old plants may be laid down 

 in a frame in the latter month. When 

 rooted, pot in 4i inch pots, and winter in 

 a cool greenhouse near the glass. The 

 following summer the plants should receive 

 two shifts, first into 8-inch and then into 

 lo-inch pots. This will repress any 

 tendency to bloom. During the summer 

 the plants should be kept in the open air 

 in a cool position, and carefully trained. 

 Towards the end of September they may 

 be taken again into the house, and watered 

 when necessary with liquid manure ; but 

 air must be freely given to them. Under 

 this management they will bloom freely 

 through the winter months. 



Carrots, Early Horn. 



Early carrots may be grown in the same 

 manner as radishes : a bed 2 or 3 feet 

 high, about 10 inches of soil, which should 

 be perfectly sweet, and free from the larvae 

 of insects; a bushel of pounded chalk 

 mixed with it will be advantageous ; the 

 Early Horn being the best for early 



TYPE OF EARLY HORN OR SHORT CARROT. 



culture ; but, as the seed is very light, and 

 hangs together, it requires, for the purpos 

 of separating it, to be rubbed up-in a peck 

 or so of tolerably dry soil, which will help 

 to bury it when sown, using the rake t 

 press it in. When up, and sufficiently 

 large to handle, the plants should b 

 thinned to 2 inches apart, and plenty o 



ir given, or they will be drawn all to 

 op. 



Carrots for Exhibition. 



To produce carrots and parsnips of an 

 extraordinary size, make a very deep hole 

 with a long dibble; ram the earth well 

 ound it while the dibble is in, and when 

 t is removed, fill up the hole with fine 

 rich earth. Sow a few seeds on the top, 

 either parsnips or carrots, as may be 

 equired, and when up, draw out all except 

 he one plant nearest to the centre of the 

 hole. Prodigious carrots and parsnips 

 may be produced by this means. 



Carrots, Sowing. 



Those who know the sweetness and 

 delicacy of the Early Horn kinds, in their 

 young state, will take care to have a 

 constant supply of them. There are many 

 different sorts of carrots, as may be seen 

 on reference to the price lists of the 

 growers, but the Early Horn is generally 

 used for forcing and early crops, James's 

 Intermediate for second or late crop, and 

 the improved Altringham for main crop ; 

 but much depends on soil and locality. 

 They may be sown in frames in gentle 

 heat in January, and in borders from 

 March till the latter end of July. The 

 main crop may be sown from the middle 

 of March to the middle of April, according 

 to situation. 



Sow broadcast on beds, and thin Early 

 Horns to three or four inches for the 

 smaller sorts ; larger sorts are better sown 

 in drills. If it is preferred to drill the 

 seeds, let the drills be twelve or fifteen 

 inches apart, as shallow as possible, and 

 sow the seed continuously along the drill, 

 or three or four seeds at intervals of six or 

 eight inches ; this economises the seed, 

 and admits of going amongst the plants 

 without treading on them. Light ground 

 should be trodden before it is drilled : the 



