CARROTS AND PARSNIPS 



95 



Long Orange 



variety 



for the 



home garden, as it grows ^^i^.^^^" 



well in various soils and 



locations and produces heavy crops. 



The Chantenay and Long Orange are late 

 varieties, shaped as in the illustration. 

 The Long Orange does well only in light, 

 porous soils. 



The Danvers Half-long carrot is prob- 

 ably grown by market gardeners in this 

 country more than all the others put together. Its 

 habit of growth adapts it to almost all soils, and it 

 produces wonderful crops if given good soil and good 

 treatment. 



Planting. — The soil for carrots must be prepared, 

 in general, the same as for beets, though it is pos- 

 sible to get fair carrots from soil where beets would 

 not do well. Work it over thoroughly in the fall 

 with two or three barrow-loads of dairy dressing, if 

 possible. If commercial fertilizer must be depended 

 on, dig five pounds to the fifty-foot row well into 

 the earth, shortly before planting. 



