HOME' VEGETABLE GARDENING 
CARROTS— BEST EARLY KINDS 
O F PARTICULAR value to the home gardener, whose 
space is limited, are Early French Forcing and Golden 
Ball . Both make very small tops, on account of which 
the rows may be put as closely as a foot apart, with the 
roots about two inches apart in the row. The finished 
carrots of these two kinds average one and a half inches 
long by one inch in diameter and should be used quickly. 
A week later, or in about eighty-five days, Early Scarlet 
Horn perfects two and a half to three-inch roots of about 
two inches in diameter at the crown. This is the most 
popular extra early sort, but must be used quickly since the 
roots are inclined to split badly as soon as they grow larger 
than above size. 
Early Chantenay, as shown above, may be called the 
connecting link between the early stump-rooted and the 
later maturing, long kinds. Within ninety to one hundred 
days it produces three and a half to four-inch roots 
one and a half to two inches in diameter at the top. A 
very popular early sort with home gardeners throughout 
the country. 
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