Varieties and Use of Carrots. Celery 73 



eighteen inches apart. Cultivate with garden rake after 

 each rain. The plants may be thinned and the roots 

 used during the summer or allowed to remain where 

 they grow until needed during the winter. If the roots 

 grow above ground, throw two light furrows upon them 

 before severe freezing weather occurs in the fall. 



Golden Ball and Oxheart are early varieties, but the 

 Banvers, Long Orange and Long Lemon are the heaviest 

 yielders. 



Carrots are mainly used in the South in stews and 

 soups, but may be boiled and seasoned with salt and 

 butter. They are sometimes used as a butter color. On 

 deep, rich soil the long varieties yield immense crops at 

 little cost, and are valuable for feeding all kinds of stock. 

 They do not become woody in winter, like beets. Carrots 

 may be kept all winter hilled in the garden or in a cellar. 

 In the lower half of the cotton belt they may remain in 

 the garden all winter without injury from cold. 



CELERY 



On account of its superior qualities as an accessory 

 to a meal, celery is one of the luxuries of the garden. 

 Though there are no special difficulties involved in its 

 culture, few grow it, and the supply, except in large 

 cities, is usually short. It is a hardy biennial, native of 

 England, where the wild plant grows along the banks of 

 ditches and in marshy places. It is difficult to realize 

 that a vegetable so tender and delicious as the varieties 

 now under cultivation has been developed from so rank 

 a weed. 



