CARDOON 



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In some varieties the lower part of the leaf is more or less 

 coloured with purple or red ; such as the Red-stemmed and the 



Smooth Solid Cardoon (^V natural size). Artichoke-leaved Cardoon. 



Purple Cardoon, but they have now gone out of cultivation, their 

 ribs generally being wanting in firmness, and their red or purple 

 colour being against them. 



CARROT 



Daucus Carota, L. UmbellifercB 



French, Carotte. German, Mohre, Gelbrube. Dutch, Wortel. Italian, Carota. 

 Spanish, Zanahoria. Portuguese, Cenoura. 



Native of Europe. — Biennial. — The root of this plant, when 

 artificially developed by cultivation, exhibits the widest differences 

 in shape, size, and colour. The leaves are very much divided, and 

 twice or thrice pinnate, the divisions being deeply cut and pointed. 

 The flowers, produced in umbels, are small, white, crowded together, 

 and with long linear bracts, and are borne on the top of a stem 



