OF ESCULENTS. 



SECT. XV, 



A few fate carrots may be fown in April and May, 

 to draw young in the fummer ; and fome in Augufl, to 

 ftand the winter, for early fpring ufe ; but carrots that 

 ftand the winter grow hard, and are of very little 

 worth, and that chiefly for foups. 



In autumn, 4 let carrots be taken up as foon as their 

 leaves begin to change ; for when they continue too 

 long in the ground, they are apt to get worm-eaten, 

 efpecially in rich foils. Cut the tops off at an inch, 

 and lay them up dry and free from mould, in drv fand, 

 a laver of fand, and a layer of carrots. All thofe that 

 are broken, or cut, fhould be thrown afide for prefcnt 

 fpending, as they would decay in the heap, and* fp read 

 iiifeftion to the reft. Thofe who grow large quantities 

 for cattle, ftack them in hovels, &c. with a thick coal 

 of ftraw, bottom and fides, and particularly on the top, 

 In a foil that fails them, csitols turn w good account, 

 arid are excellent food for all forts of cattle, but parti- 

 cularly pigs and horfes. 



Cauliflower is fometimes difiinguifhed into an 

 early and late fort; though, in fact, there is no differ- 

 ence, only as the feed of that called early is faved from 

 the forwardeft plants. 



The time for /owing cauliflowers is rather a nice 

 bufmefs, but it is generally fettled for the 20th of Auguft, 

 a day under or over. It will be prudent, however, to 

 fow again a few days after, but not earlier, as then 

 they would be apt to form only very little heads, and 

 run up for feed. Let the young plants be timely thinned, 

 that they may be ilrong. Prick them out when the 

 firft leaves are about an inch broad. And as cauli- 

 flowers are tender, they will require to be pricked out 

 in the wanneft and drieft part oi the garden. Some of 

 rhem ihould be protected under hand-glaffes^ frames, or 

 haqpi and mats, fliutcing up clofe, and covering the 

 glafles with mats or ftraw in fevere weather : not doin^ 

 this, however, before the weather makes it necef?.'^ > > 

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