194 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Blunt-rooted Guerande, or Ox-heart, Carrot. A very distinct 

 variety, remarkable for great size and quickness of growth. It 

 might be described as an enormous Dutch Horn Carrot, for often 



its length does not much 

 exceed its thickness, which 

 measures sometimes 3^ in. 

 in diameter. The flesh is 

 very tender and delicate, 

 and a beautiful orange-red, 

 paler at the centre ; not, 

 like the Nantes Carrot, a 

 coreless variety. The 

 foliage is light and rather 

 scant. It is an excellent 

 kitchen Carrot, but requires 

 a light, substantial, well- 



Blunt-rooted Guerande Carrot. 



dunged soil and moisture. 

 Well grown, it is one of the 

 best Carrots for the table. 

 English Horn, or Early Half-long Scarlet, Carrot. Root 

 spindle-shaped, two and a half or three times as long as broad ; 

 neck often tinged with green or brown, level with the surface of 

 the soil, and slightly hollowed out around the base of the leaf- 

 stalks ; leaves somewhat stouter than those of the preceding kind. 

 A good, productive, and pretty early variety, grown on a large 

 scale in many localities for market supply. 



James's Intermediate Carrot. This variety is evidently an 

 improved form of the Half-long Scarlet Carrot, but as it has now 

 been a good while in 

 very general cultivation, 

 it has undergone a con- 

 siderable amount of 

 modification, in conse- 

 quence of which it ex- 

 hibits at the present day 

 numerous diversities of 

 character in different 

 districts. In a general 

 way it may be described 

 as a handsome Half-long 

 Carrot, with a long, 

 pointed, well - coloured 

 root, vigorous and rapid 

 in growth, and having a stoutish neck, as might be expected 

 from a variety which is as much grown in fields as in gardens. 

 It is very productive, and much in request for field culture. 



English Horn, or Half-long Scarlet, Carrot. 



