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necessity be older than that, there need be little surprise that 

 it commonly fails. 



The mode of cultivation would be precisely the same as 

 practised with the Carrot. But the Parsnip takes much longer 

 time in becoming mature for table use, and indeed requires the 

 effects of an English winter to bring it to perfection. Under 

 these drawbacks, perhaps few would care to attempt the culti- 

 vation of it in this country. 



Daucus Carota. 



CABROT. 



Gdjur. 



There are two very distinct kinds of Carrot : the long-rooted, 

 comprising the Long Surrey, Altringham, and Long Orange ; 

 and the Horn kind, of a blunt spindle form, and not going down 

 far into the earth. These latter are the more easily cultivated, 

 come into season earlier, and are tender and of a mild flavour ; 

 but the long-rooted, in my opinion, have more of the true Carrot 

 taste, and are the preferable vegetable. 



Sowing may be commenced about the middle of October, 

 when the Rains are over. A good, loose, and deeply-dug soil is 

 desirable for every kind of Carrot, but not so indispensable for 

 the short or early Horn as for others. The seed is more com- 

 monly sown broadcast, but the better and more economical plan 

 is to sow it in drills. The drills should be in rows, eight inches 

 apart. If the seed be mixed, and rubbed together with a little 

 sand, the sowing may be managed much more easily. The 

 plants when they come up in the drills should be hoed out to 

 six inches apart. As they make growth the ground should be 

 well watered to enable the roots to penetrate into the earth, 

 but a soil over-enriched with fresh manure is said to give the 

 roots a tendency to fork. 



Carrots, when they have attained to a size fit for table use, 

 may be taken up and stored in large earthen vessels, filled up 

 with well-dried earth closely pressed down. Before taking up 

 the Carrots it is well to cut away the green leaves down to the 

 crown, so as to allow the tops of the roots to dry a day or two 

 in the sun. 



