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thinly, in rows three feet apart, and thinning out to 

 eighteen inches between the plants. The plant attains 

 its growth in early fall, when it is blanched by tying the 

 leaves together so as to cause an erect growth, after 

 which it is earthed up, and preserved exactly as we do 

 Celery. 



CARROT. (Daucus Carota). 



This may be classed more as a crop of the farm than 

 of the garden, as a far larger area is grown for the food 

 of horses and cattle than for culinary purposes. Yet it 

 is a salable vegetable in our markets, and by no means 

 an unprofitable one to grow on lands not too valuable. 

 It is not necessary that the land for this crop should be 

 highly enriched. I have grown on sod land (which had 

 been turned over in fall), 300 barrels per acre, without a 

 particle of manure, and three years after, and on the same 

 land, which had been brought up to our market garden 

 standard of fertility, a very inferior crop; the land being 

 too rich, induced a growth of tops rather than roots. In 

 our ma*rket gardens, we sow in rows fourteen inches 

 apart, thinning out to three or four inches between the 

 plants ; but on farm lanis, where space is not so valuable, 

 they should be planted eighteen or twenty-four inches 

 between the rows, and worked with the cultivator. For 

 early crops, we sow at the beginning of our first operations 

 in spring, in the same manner as we sow Beets, as soon 

 as the ground is thoroughly dry ; but for later crops, 

 they may be sown any time in this latitude until the 

 middle of June. This is one of the vegetables that 

 requires a close watching to see that it does not get 

 enveloped with weeds, as, in its early stage, it is of com- 

 paratively feeble growth, and unless it is kept clean from 

 the start, it is apt to be irrevocably injured. 



