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by parting the roots. One little bit of root will 

 soon make a bed sufficient for a garden. The 

 Jlowers 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. 



206. 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 

 handsome as a flower -, and its pods are used as a 

 pickle. 



207. CARAWAY. The seeds are used in 

 cakes. The plant is an annual. Sow in the 

 spring, in fine 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 



preparation 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 

 preserved 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, deefi-red 

 colour of the tap. The paler ones are degene- 

 rate ; and the yellow ones are fast going back to 

 the wild carrot. Some people consider that there 

 arefwo sorts : I never could discover any diffe- 

 rence in the plants coming from seed of what has 

 been called the two sort. A Cow will nearly 

 double her milk, if taken from common pasture 

 in October, and fed well on carrot-g-r^ercs, or tops 

 and they may, at this season, be cut off for that 

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