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use. It is a perennial, and, though it may be pro* 

 pagated from seed, it is easiest propagated by part- 

 ing the roots. One little bit of root will soon make 

 a bed sufficient for a garden. The flowers are used 

 in medicine. They should be gathered before they 

 begin to fade : and be dried in a gentle sun, or in 

 shade ; and then put by, in paper bags, in a dry 

 place. 



206. CAPSICUM (or Peppers.)— An annual 

 plant, sown early in fine earth, in drills a foot apart, 

 and at six inches apart in the drills. It is hand- 

 some as 3, flower, and its pods are used as a pickle. 



207. CARAWAY. — The seeds are used in cakes. 

 The plant is an annual. Sow in the spring, in fine 

 rich ground, and leave the plants eight inches apart 

 each way. 



208. CARROT.— Read the Article Beet ; for, 

 the same season, same soil, same manure, same pre- 

 paration for sowing, same distances, same inter- 

 cullivation, same time of taking up, and mode of 

 preserving the crop, all belong to the Carrot. — 

 About the same quantity also is enough for a large 

 family. — Some fine roots may be carefully preserv- 

 ed to plant out for seed in the spring ; and the seed 

 should be taken only from the centre seed-stalks of 



' the carrots ; for that is the finest. — The mark of a 

 good kind of seed, is, dfeep-red colour of the tap. 



I The paler ones are degenerate ; and the yellow ones 

 are fast going back to the wild carrot. Some peo- 



I pie consider that there are two sorts : I never could 

 discover any difference in the plants coming from 

 seed of what has been called the two sorts. A Cow 

 will nearly double her milk, if taken from common 

 pasture in October, and fed well on carrot' greens^ 

 or tops ; and they may, at this season, be cut off 

 for that purpose. They will shoot a little again be- 

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