AND VEGETABLE-GARDEN MANUAL. 115 
CARDOON. 
Large Solid Stalked. 
The tender stalks of the inner leaves, rendered white and deli- 
cate by earthing up, are used for stewing, and for soups and salad 
in autumn and winter. The seed should be sown early in the 
spring, and, when one’ year old, transplanted to permanent posi- 
tions, allowing each plant a space of two or three feet square. 
CARROT. 
1. Long Orange. 3. Altringham, or Field. 
2. Early Horn. 4. Large White, or Field. 
In sowing Carrot seed, it will be proper to observe, that when 
the ground has a disposition to be wet, or is apt to bind, it will be 
found desirable to divide it into beds, four or five feet wide, with 
narrow alleys about one foot wide between the same. The seed 
should be raked in regularly, taking care not to draw the earth up 
in heaps. The seed have numerous forked hairs on their borders, 
by which they adhere, and should be well rubbed between the 
hands, and mixed with dry sand, in order to separate them as 
much as possible previously to sowing. Being very light, a quiet, 
still day should be chosen for sowing. For forty feet of drill, a 
quarter of an ounce is enough, and the same for a bed three feet 
wide and eleven feet long. Nos. 1 and 2 are esteemed the better 
kinds for table use. The Early Horn is an admirable variety, and 
equally good for summer and winter use. Nos. 3 and 4 are grown 
for stock. Though No. 1 is probably as good for that purpose, it 
does not grow quite so large as No. 4, but is more nutritious. 
For domestic use, sow early in spring in drills, in deeply dug and 
well-manured ground. The drills should be twelve or eighteen 
inches apart. When the plants are up a few inches high, weed 
and thin them so as to stand at least six inches from each other, 
except those intended for early use, which may be thinned by 
