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is that it is large, productive, early to form, and keeps well. 

 Formerly quantities of it were sent to the Paris market from 

 Flanders in waggons at the close of winter, when the Scarlet Horn 

 and the Long Red Carrots were beginning to grow scarce. It is 

 now less frequently seen there since the Parisian cultivators 

 discovered that by successional sowings fresh Carrots can be raised 

 at all seasons. 



Orange Belgian, or Long Orange Green-top, Carrot.— This 

 very hardy and productive kind is more generally grown in the 



Orange Belgian, or Long Orange Green- Long Lemon Carrot, 



top, Carrot (A natural size). 



fields than in the kitchen-garden. The root is at least six times as 

 long as broad, pale orange on the underground portion, and quite 

 green above-ground, or for about one-fourth of its entire length ; 

 hence it is indifferently termed the Green-top Red, or Green-top 

 Yellow, Carrot. It keeps well, and is considered to be very 

 nutritious. 



Long Lemon Carrot. — Root rather slender, four or five times 

 as long as broad, almost entirely sunk in the ground, and bright 

 yellow, except at the neck, where it is slightly tinged with green. 



