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use. It is a perennial, and, though it may be pro- 

 pagated from seed, it is easiest propagated by part- 

 ing the roots. One little bit of root will soon make 

 a bed sufficient for a garden. The flowers are used 

 in medicine. They should be gathered before they 

 begin to fade : and be dried in a gentle sun, or in 

 shade ; and then put by, in paper bags, in a dry 

 place. 



'x!06. CAPSICUM (or Peppers.) An annual 

 plant, sown early in fine earth, in drills a foot apart, 

 and at six inches apart in the drills. It is hand- 

 some as a flower, and its pods are used as a pickle. 



^07. CARAWAY. The seeds are used in cakes. 

 The plant is an annual. Sow in the spring, in tine 

 rich ground, and leave-the plants eight inches apart 

 each way. 



208. CARROT. Read the Article BEET ; for, 

 the same season, same soil, same manure, same pre- 

 paration for sowing, same distances, same inter- 

 cultivation, same time of taking up, and mode of 

 preserving the crop, all belong to the Carrot. 

 About the same quantity also is enough for a large 

 family. Some fine roots may be carefully preserv- 

 ed to plant out for seed in the spring ; and the seed 

 should be taken only from the centre seed-stalks of 

 the carrots ; for that is the finest. The mark of a 

 good kind of seed, is, deep-red colour of the tap. 

 The paler ones are degenerate ; and the yellow ones 

 are fast going back to the wild carrot. Some peo- 

 ple consider that there are two sorts : I never could 

 discover any difference in the plants coming from 

 seed of what has been called the two sorts. A Cow 

 will nearly double her milk, if taken from common 

 pasture in October, and fed well on carrot-greeds, 

 or tops ; and they may, at this season, be cut ofl 

 for that purpose. They will shoot a little again Ue- 

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