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New Principles of Gardening. 
-Amoneft the! feveral Vegetables cultivated in Gardens, there 
are none fo difficult to preferve from Degeneration as good Car- 
rots; for if very great Care is not taken in the choice of thofe 
planted for Seed, they immediately degenerate, and foon after 
become wild, or very near thereunto. 
The common received Notion amongft divers People, of good 
Catrot Seed once acquired, will always continue fo, is ab{o- 
lutely falfe; and is the true reafon of fo many indifferent Kinds 
of Carrots now in England. 
And to prove this, 1 made the following Experiment, v2z. 
Fir, Imade choice of a very beautiful orange Carrot, of a fine 
length and’ magnitude, which during the Winter, I preferved . 
in Sand; and when March came, planted it in a very light 
fandy Loam, wherein it thrived with great Succefs, and pro- 
duced feveral very large Heads of found Seed, which I ga- 
thered and faved very dry. | 
In. March following I made choice’ of a frefh piece of Land, 
very light and agreeable to their Nature, wherein I fowed the 
Seed before faved, which foon after came up in great Plenty, 
and: grew! to avery large Size; but not ‘above one in ten 
was truly as beautiful in Colour as their original ; not but that 
the others were in general: Very good, fome few excepted, 
which were perfeétly white and wild. 
Having received thus much Satisfation from my Experiment, 
I was refolved to carry it on farther, and to that end I made 
choice of another Carrot, the fecond beft; or degenerated one 
Degree of Colour from the’ original, which Carrot I preferv- 
ed during the Winter, planted it in March, and it grew with 
good Succefs, and produced very near as much Seed as the 
former, which the Spring following I fowed, (as before) 
and the product was avery pale yellow, and agreat many quite 
white, without fo much’ as one of fo good a Colour, as that 
from which I faved the Seed. : | | 
This laft ‘part’ of my Experiment gave me a plain Proof 
ot the Caufe of the feveral bad Kinds of Carrots in England, 
(as I before obferved) as wellas of the great Care that ought to 
be taken to preferve a good Kind. ‘And ’tis my real Opinion 
that had I carried on the Experiment farther, they would at 
length become all white ahd wild, as the wild Carrots them- 
felves are. | eS 
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