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from time to time, until whitened to a sufficient height. As 

 winter approaches, Cardoons must be taken up and laid 

 away like Celery, or they may be preserved with sand in a 

 cellar. 



CARROT. 

 CAEOTTE. Daucus carota. 



VARIETIES. 



Early Orange. ~ ( Lonz Lemon- coloured. 



Long Orange. g ? Blood Red, 



Altringham. ,5 ( Long White. 



THE Carrot is a native of Britain, and grows by the 

 road sides, in many parts. As a culinary vegetable it is 

 much used in soups and stews, and forms a dish with boiled 

 beef, &c. The coarse sorts are cultivated as fodder for cows, 

 vsheep, oxen, and horses, and are considered profitable, as 

 they frequently yield upwards of four hundred bushels to an 

 acre. 



For the garden, the Early Orange should be cultivated 

 for Spring and Summer use; but the Long Orange and 

 Altringham are more suitable for main crops, on account 

 of their bright orange colour, as well as for their great 

 size and length. They grow to great perfection in a 

 rich loamy soil, and may be raised in drills drawn about one 

 inch deep, and twelve inches asunder. A small bed may be 

 planted the latter end of March for an early crop, and from 

 that time to the end of May, for successive crops : but the 

 principal crop should not be sown too soon, as the early 

 plantings are apt to produce seed stalks, and consequently 

 stringy and useless roots. 



The most suitable ground for late carrots, is that 

 which hasbeen well manured for previous crops, and requires 

 no fresh manure. If the seed be sown early in June, and the 

 plants thinned out to the distance of five or six inches from 

 each other when young, and kept hoed, they would yield an 

 abundance of fine roots for winter and spring use, by being 

 taken up in Autumn, and preserved either in sand in a cellar, 



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