360 THE KITCHEN GARDENER. ffi. $. 



which methods care fhould be taken to 

 keep them as dry as poflible, and to diveft 

 them of any leaves which decay. 



The foil that produces this vegetable 

 beft, is a loam neither light nor ftiff, of at 

 leafl eighteen inches in depth, and which 

 is well enriched with any of the common 

 manures ufually applied to fuch foils. OF 

 this, fee the article Cabbage. 



SECTION IX. 



CARROT* 



THIS, above all other vegetables, de- 

 lights in new land, and that which 

 produces it beft is a light, fandy loam, of 

 eighteen or twenty inches in depth at 

 lead. Carrots fhould never be fown with 

 manure of any kind at the time of fowing^ 

 being produced beft and cleaneft on land 

 that has been manured for the preceding 

 crop. 



The beft crop I ever fawy was growing 

 on a fpot of ground (a fandy loam, and 

 rather poor), which was trenched three 



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