Tke Carrot 



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96. Fruits ("seeds") of 

 carrot (X 5). 



Carrots are grown for human food and also for live- 

 stock. In the former utilization, which is the only part of 

 the subject under consideration here, there are two lead-. 

 ing types: those grown for spring or 

 early summer use, and those- grown as 

 a main crop and used in the winter. 

 The main-season carrots are not culti- 

 vated very extensively as a vegetable- 

 gardening crop. Young fresh carrots 

 may be shipped from the Southern 

 States so cheaply that there is relatively little need of 

 storing the roots for market. The carrot does well as a 

 hotbed crop. 



Light quick fertile land is essential for the growing of 

 tender sweet carrots. In such lands the germination is 

 also more certain and uniform. The carrot is a fairly 

 hardy plant, and the early varieties may be sown as soon 

 as the land is fit in the 

 spring. The late varieties 

 may be sown as late as 

 the middle of June in the 

 Northern States. Carrots 

 mature rather slowly, and 

 even the early varieties re- 

 quire 2 to 2y2 months to 

 bring them to edible size, 

 unless they are aided in their 

 growth by a covering of sash. 

 carrots, it is well to sow some early stufE in spring, as 

 radishes, and to keep the ground clean until it is needed 

 for the carrots. The early weeds will then be killed, and 



96. Seedlings of carrot (X %)■ 



On land to be used for late 



