On the White or Belgian Carrot. 41 



carried off the land and sold. No dung of any kind was put to the 

 carrots. 



I am. Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



John C. Morton. 



Chester Hill, Nov. 18, 1840. 



(Note by Mr. Pusey.) 



This carrot, though it has been long grown as a field-root in 

 Flanders, has been but very lately introduced into England : it 

 is, however, much liked by those who have tried it in my own 

 neighbourhood. A farmer, Mr. W. B. Harris, who has grown it 

 for two years on a good free loam, gives me the following account 

 of it : — On taking up my carrots and weighing them, I find they 

 fall short of the quantity I grew last year. Instead of the white 

 carrots weighing nearly 32 tons per acre, they will only weigh 20 

 tons this year; and instead of the red ones weighing about 16 

 tons, they only weigh 12 tons this year. I have generally found 

 the difference between the red and white carrot to be as follows 

 (in all cases where I have weighed them and in all cases of 

 inquiry) : — The white generally exceed the red ones in weight 

 from 8 to 9 tons per acre, when you take the average of the field 

 as I have done now. I attribute the failure in my crop this year 

 to two or three things. In the first place, the land was not sub- 

 soiled ; in the second, they were planted late, and the weather 

 too dry ; and in the third place, they were hoed too thin — they 

 were hoed the last time with a bean-hoe." — Even the diminished 

 crop of Mr. Harris, however, is very considerable, as it is equal in 

 weight to an excellent crop of swedes, and is twice as valuable. 

 On some lighter land 16 tons of the white carrot were grown last 

 year, where the red field-carrot gave a very poor crop. I ought 

 to add that I have not succeeded in raising more than eight 

 or nine tons myself; but this new root has in its favour the high 

 practical authority of the Yoxford Farming Club, who " recom- 

 mend strongly the cultivation of the long white carrot, as it pro- 

 duces a heavy crop of good quality, and adapted to strong as well 

 as mixed-soil lands, will keep well, and is excellent food for cart- 

 horses. It has been stated to me that there are two varieties, and 

 that the best of the two is that which makes a large portion of 

 its root above ground. Sir C. Burrell has grown it in Sussex, and 

 has found it very productive. Colonel Le Couteur informs me 

 " that in Jersey the prize-crop of parsnips this year afforded 318 

 lbs. to the perch, or 23 tons to the acre, while the white carrot, a 



