the Garden Carrot. By Mr. William Christie. 387 



Though certainly inferior to the next sort, this Carrot appears 

 to be the one more generally used than all the others. 



5th. The Long Red Carrot, or Carotte rouge longue of 

 France. The leaves are of moderate length, the roots very 

 long and large, tapering gradually to their extremity ; the 

 flesh is reddish, with a yellow heart. This is the most useful 

 of the Long Carrots, and is the kind most proper to be 

 cultivated for winter use. It is this sort which is chiefly 

 grown about London by the market gardeners, and is known 

 by the name of the Chertsey, and the Surrey Carrot, from 

 the circumstance of great quantities of it being brought to 

 the markets of the metropolis from Chertsey and the county 

 of Surrey. 



6. The Purple Carrot. This kind, though mentioned by 

 several writers, and even in some of the oldest gardening 

 books, seems to have been long disused here, but is known 

 in France as the Carotte violette. The leaves are tall ; the 

 root is of moderate size, thick at the top, and tapering 

 suddenly ; the outer part of the flesh, for about a quarter of 

 an inch in thickness, is deep purple, the inner part light 

 yellow, and the heart dark yellow ; but it sometimes is light 

 yellow, and divided from the flesh by a dark yellow ring. 

 This does not rank high in point of flavour, and will per- 

 haps only be cultivated on account of its singular appear- 

 ance. The French consider it the sweetest of all the kinds, 

 but complain that it is apt to run to seed in the year in 

 which it is sown ; it is cultivated in Spain, from whence it 

 was received by M. Vilmorin. 



In addition to the preceding nine sorts, belonging to the 

 two chief divisions of Horn and Long Carrots, there is an- 

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