210 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



CARAWAY. 



Carum Carui. German, Ki'immel ; French, Carvi Cumin; 

 Spanish, Carvi. A common European biennial meadow weed. 

 Seeds used in flavoring bread, cheese, pastry and sauces. Seed 

 may be sown in spring or fall, in drills. Little or no culti- 

 vation is required except to thin, and keep reasonably free from 

 weeds. 



CARROTS. 



Daiicus Carota. German, M'dhre, Mohrrube ; French, 

 Caroite ; Spanish, ZanaJioria. I have already referred to the 

 carrot as a vegetable grown in cold frames, etc., for early 



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market. See Chapter on " Cold Frames." 

 As a market vegetable, carrots are tied 

 up in bunches, in same fashion as early 

 beets, bunch onions, etc., and generally prove profitable. When 

 grown as an early outdoor crop for market or family use, seed 

 is sown as soon in spring as the ground is in proper working 

 order, in rows 12 to 15 inches apart, and the plants thinned to 

 2 or 3 inches apart in the rows. The ground need not be as 

 heavily manured as required for most other garden crops ; but 

 early attention must be given, for the plants have a small begin- 

 ning, and start somewhat feebly, and if neglected are liable to 

 get crowded out by weeds or lost among them. Keep the 

 wheel-hoe going from the very first, and pull up every weed. 



Except in the limited way of bunch carrots, the vegetable is 

 more of a farm than a garden crop. Carrots, although good 

 culinary material in the hands of skilled cooks, are not used so 



