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New Principles of Gardening. 
cures the Cholick, and is very good againft the Stone and 
Gravel. 
5: The Parts for the Kitchen ufe are the Roots only. 
6. The Quantity or proportion is at pleafure. 
7. Their Cultivation. 
The proper Soil (as I have before obferved) for the yellow 
or orange Carrot, whofe Cultivation I am now {peaking of, 
is a light fandy Soil, rather than a ftrong Loam, which ge- 
nerally infefts them with numberlefs Quantities of Worms, 
and gives a very bitter infipid Tafte. We muft therefore fur- 
nith our felves with found Seed of the beft Kind; and make 
choice of a piece of fuch light Land, as is moft agreeable to 
their Nature. 
This being done, caufe the fame to be well digg’d about the 
middle of Fume, and therein fow your Seed, treading the Ground 
all over, that the Seed may be well fettled therein ; and being 
afterwards kept clean from Weeds, and fingled out with a {mall 
Hough, at about three Inches apart, will, by the Michaelmas 
following, be of a tolerable good Size, and fit for the Table. 
But as my Bufinefs at the prefent is to provide a plenty of 
young Carrots, for the Months of January, February and March, 
I thall therefore give proper Dire¢tions forthe fame. ~~ 
As foon after Michaelmas as the Carrots, before raifed, are 
obferved to have done growing, take them out of the Ground, 
cut off their Tops fo clofe to their Heads, as to leave none 
of the Leaves, gc. and dry them well in the Sun. Then hav- 
ing made choice of a dry piece of Ground, dig a Trench of 
two Feet deep, and about twenty Inches or two Feet in breadth, 
and of fuch alength as is neceffary. : 
This being done, place therein your Carrots, tn regular 
courfes, one over the other, till the Trench is filled within fix 
Inches of the Surface of the Earth, and then placing the Earth 
over them, well fettled, inthe Form of a Ridge, to caft off the . 
Water; you will have finifhed your Magazine, from which you 
may befurnifhed with plenty of Carrots in a much betrer Man- 
ner, than when let growing all the Winter in the Ground 3 
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