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There is a green-necked sub-variety of it, but the root of the 

 true James's Intermediate is entirely red. It is the most ex- 

 tensively cultivated Half-long Carrot 

 in England, both in fields and 

 gardens, but in many cases some 

 of the Continental kinds might be 

 advantageously grown instead of it. 



Half-long Blunt Scarlet Carrot. 

 —This may be considered as a variety 

 of the Pointed kind. The root is 

 not so slender, and ends in a blunt 

 cone, but there is no apparent differ- 

 ence in the leaves or in any other 

 respect. The Blunt-rooted variety is 

 to be preferred for kitchen-garden 

 culture. It may be regarded as the 

 form from which have been derived 

 in succession the Early Scarlet Horn 

 and the French Forcing (or French 

 Horn) Carrot, both of which, like the 

 present variety, are characterised by 

 the blunt, rounded end of the root, 

 the fineness of the neck, and the 

 paucity of leaves. There seems to 



be a sort of reciprocal dependence and an intimate correlation 

 between the blunt form of the end of the root and the fineness 

 of the neck in the Carrot tribe. Those varieties which have few 

 leaves and a very short and very fine neck have almost invariably 

 a blunt-ended root, and vice versa. Great earliness also is generally 



found to accompany these 

 physical characteristics. 



Early Nantes Carrot. 

 — Root almost perfectly 

 cylindrical, not wide at 

 the neck, and with a 

 blunt, round point ; skin 

 very smooth ; neck fine, 

 hollowed out around the 

 base of the leaf-stalks ; 

 leaves not very large ; 

 flesh entirely red, very 

 sweet and mild, and 

 almost devoid of the broad 

 yellow heart or core which 

 is seen in most of the other kinds of Red Carrots. Although this 

 variety only recently began to be distributed, it has already 



James's Intermediate Carrot. 



Half-long Blunt Scariet Carrot. 



