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they frequently yield upward of four hundre >l bushels to an 

 acre, when cultivated on the field system. 



For the garden, the Early Orange should be cultivated for 

 spring and summer use ; but the Long Orange is more suit- 

 able for main crops, on account of its bright orange colour, 

 as well as for its great size and length. Carrots grow to 

 gi'eat perfection in a rich loamy soil, and may be raised in 

 drills drawn about one inch deep, and twelve inches asunder. 

 A small bed may be planted at the latter end of March for 

 an early crop, and from that time to the end of May for suc- 

 cessive crops ,• but the principal crop should not be sovni too 

 soon, as the early plantings are apt to produce seed-stalks, 

 and, consequently, stringy and useless roots. 



The most suitable ground for late Carrots, is that which 

 has been well manured for previous crops, and requires no 

 fresh manure. If the seed be sown in June, and the plants 

 thinned out to the distance of five or six inches from each 

 other when young, and kept hoed, they will yield an abun- 

 dance of fine roots for winter and spring use, by being taken 

 up in autumn, and preserved either in sand in a cellar, or 

 covered up in pits in a garden, as directed in the Calendar 

 for November. 



Although Carrot seed is naturally small and light, it seldom 

 fails to vegetate in favourable seasons ; it, therefore, need not 

 be sown too thick in gi'ound not apt to produce weeds. If 

 a root could be insured to grow unmolested in every instance 

 where a seed may be deposited, two pounds would be more 

 than sufficient for an acre of land ; but gardeners generally 

 use four or five pounds to the acre, in order that the rows 

 may be more easily traced in the event of a luxuriant gi'owth 

 of weeds. To avoid risking an unequal crop in small gar- 

 dens, half an ounce of seed should be allotted for every pole, 

 perch, or rod, or twenty ounces for a rood of land. On Jight 

 ground, the use of a roller would be beneficial in dry weather, 

 excess of which is detrimental to the germination of CaiTOt, 

 as well as of all other light seed. 



