604- Culture of the Carrot. 



that by accident some of the fruit had touched the glass, yet they 

 were in as good condition as the others. The leaves were those 

 of the Beurre Wane, Bergamotte d'automne, and Monille bouche, 

 because they were the driest at the time. 



Those plums which I put in a bottle, without any covering of 

 paper or leaves, were for the greater part decayed, and those that 

 were not so were unsightly, and the stalks gave way on the 

 slightest touch. Those, however, that were preserved in the 

 pear leaves afforded me the pleasure of distributing them as 

 presents at Easter, and therefore my wishes were completely 

 gratified. 



I made the same experiments this last autumn, but on a larger 

 scale, and the result proved the same. I intend to make more 

 experiments on preserving plums, particularly by putting them 

 in closely stopped bottles and immersing them in water. There 

 is no doubt that this attempt will be successful, because an equal 

 temperature and exclusion of air seem to be the principal agents 

 in preserving fruit, and where can both be obtained with greater 

 certainty than in water? 



Having now made my method of preserving plums known to 

 your readers, allow me to request them to communicate their 

 experience on the subject, in like manner, through the medium 

 of your journal. It will not only be very interesting, but be 

 very useful in large towns and in the country generally. 



Art. X. On the Culture of the Carrot. By Alexander Forsyth. 



In preparing ground for carrots, I should trench in autumn ; 

 and afterwards lay on a layer of old hot-bed dung, or other half- 

 rotten dung ; and allow it to remain on the surface, exposed to 

 the action of the elements, until March ; when it may be pointed 

 in, and the seed for the principal crop sown in drills half an 

 inch deep, and about a foot apart. The plants to be thinned out, 

 first, when about an inch high, to one inch apart in the row ; 

 and afterwards, when they are about the size of salmon radishes, 

 to two inches apart. The quantity of seed requisite for any 

 given space may be computed at one and a half ounce to the 

 pole. For young carrots fit to draw early in the spring, a sow- 

 ing may be made about the 12th of August, in a well drained, airy, 

 sheltered situation, to stand the winter without protection, in 

 rows, six inches apart, half an inch deep, and thinned out to about 

 three in an inch in the row. In January, a sowing may be 

 made on a slight hot-bed, say 3 or 4 feet thick of leaves, with 

 an upper stratum of any friable soil, about 6 in. deep, the sur- 

 face of which, when finished, may run parallel with the glass, 

 at a distance, of about 4 in. from it (say a three-light box, or 



