ON CARROTS. 267 



UNFORESEEN accidents fometimes hap* 

 pen, fo that there may be poor crops of car- 

 rots ; this is common to every thing that 

 is fown ; and although all the directions 

 are followed, and the foil proper and in 

 good order, the feafon may be fo bad and 

 contrary to them that there may be few ; 

 but this will feldom happen. 



ACCIDENTS of this kind often happen in 

 all the common courfes of gardening and 

 hufbandry that have been in practice for 

 many years, and allowed to be a good and 

 fubftantial reafon ; but in things that are 

 new, if the feafon is ever fo bad and con-? 

 trary, the fault is laid to the new projects 

 as being of no utility, only fpeculative, and 

 without any real exigence but in the brain 

 of the projector, 



LET no fuch prejudices as thefe affect 

 thofe that intend to make trial of growing 

 carrots ; for although they mould be un- 

 fuccefsful in the firfr, and even in the fe^ 

 cond attempt, Jet them perfevere with re-. 



folution, 



