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Caraicay. 



The Carum carui, or common caraway, is a biennial plant: it 

 produces its seed, which is highly aromatic and grateful to the 

 stomach the second year after sowing, and then generally dies. 

 It may now be soon on a bed, either broad-cast and raked in, or in 

 drills, and covered half an inch deep; when up thin the plants to 

 six inches distance, and in the June twelve months following, it 

 will produce its seed. Some of the plants that have not seeded 

 abundantly will continue to bear the second season. Young plants 

 rise in abundance where the seeds fall when ripe, and these will 

 shoot and produce seed the following summer. 



Destroy Weeds. 



Weeds will now begin to appear plentifully from seed in every 

 part of the garden. The utmost diligence should be used to destroy 

 them, while they are young, before they get the start of the crops, 

 especially towards the middle and latter end of the month, when, 

 if a forward season, they will be advancing in a rapid growth. 



Pay particular regard, at this time, to your small crops, as onions, 

 carrots,' parsneps, and the like; weeds grow much quicker than 

 they do; and if they are not wed in time, either by small hoeing or 

 hand-weeding, such will occasion much labour and trouble to clear 

 them, and sometimes totally destroy the crops. 



Take the opportunity of dry weather, and hoe the ground between 

 the rows of beans, peas, cabbages, cauliflowers, and other crops 

 that stand wide to destroy the weeds. 



A large piece of ground may soon be gone over with a hoe when 

 the weeds are small; but when they are permitted to grow large, it 

 requires double labour to destroy them. 



Madder. 



The Eubia tinetorum, or dyer's madder, being an article of 

 much importance in manufactures, &c. , ought to command some 

 attention in the United States, where it will grow to as good per- 

 fection as in any country on earth. It is not wise in a nation to 

 be under the necessity of importing articles of considerable con- 

 sumption that might be cultivated at home to great advantage; and 

 although it does not immediately come within the province of the 

 gardener, I cannot let slip the opportunity of giving the best infor- 

 mation in my power for bringing it to perfection. 



The plant has a perennial root and an unusual stalk. The root 

 is composed of many long, thick, succulent fibres; these are joined 

 at the top in a head like the roots of asparagus, and strike very 

 deep into the ground, being sometimes more than three feet in 

 length. From the upper part or head of the root come out many 

 side roots, which extend just under the surface of the ground to a 

 great distance, whereby it propagates very fast; for these send up 

 a great number of shoots, which, if carefully taken oft' in spring, 



