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New Principles of Gardeuzng. 
the South; as alfo to cut away from the Stalk all the bottom 
Leaves, to give Liberty for the free Growth of their Sprouts, 
which are preferable to the Cabbages. themfelves, and will 
plentifully furnifh your Table till the middle of April. 
N. B. My Reafon for advifing the aforefaid Care of 
cutting off the Cabbages from the Stalks, is, that the Rains, 
Snow, @c. may not rot them by falling on their upper-parts, 
when cut off horizontally, and thereby be deprived of that ufe- 
ful fecond Crop of Sprouts. 
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Of Carrots. 
1. Their Names. - 
F CARROTS we have three Kinds, viz. The yellow or 
orange Carrot, the red Carrot, and the wild or white Carrot ; 
of which the yellow Carrot is the moft valuable, called in Greek 
saQuaives, in Latin Paftinaca fativa tenuifolia, in HighDutch 
Geelruben, in Low Dutch Geel Peen, Geel Pooten and Geel 
Wortelen, in French Carotte, and Racine jaulue, in Italian Paftina- 
ca, in Spanifo Canahorta, and in Enghfh yellow. Carrot. 
2. Their Defcriptions. 
t. The yellow Carrot, its Leaves are of a deep green, com- 
pofed of many fmall Leaves like unto Fennel, from the midft of 
which rifes its Stalk about four Feet in height, being pithy in 
the middle, and fomewhat hairy without, producing at its 
extream parts round Tufts, which afterwards open into large 
Tufts of Blofloms of a whitifh Colour, which is fucceeded by 
their rough and hairy Seeds, of avery pleafant {weet fmell when 
rubbed. 
The Root is of an Orange (rather than a Limon) Colour 
both without and within, delighting in a deep fandy Soil, 
and very often grows to a large Size. Ihave had Carrots of 
this Kind that have been twenty two Inches in Length, and of 
twelve Inches and half Circumference at their greateft End. 
And altho’ Carrots of a very large Size are much valued by 
: many, 
