fupporting two reflexed flyles , crowned by obtufe ftigmas. 
‘The germen afterward becomes a fmall , roundiflo , ftri- 
ated fruit, dividing in two parts, each having a Jingle feed, 
convex and furrowed on one fide, and plain on the other. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond flection 
of Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Digynia, 
the flower having five {lamina and two flyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Daucus ( Sylveftris ) feminibus hifpidis, radice tenui- 
ore fervido. Carrot with a prickly feed , and a fender 
hot root. Daucus vulgaris. Cluf. Hift. 2. p. 198. 
Common wild Carrot. 
2. Daucus ( Carota ) feminibus hifpidis, radice carnofo 
efculento. Carrot with a prickly feed, and a flefloy eatable 
root. Daucus fativus, radice aurantii coloris. Tourn. 
Infl. R. H. 307. 
3. Daucus ( Gingidium ) radiis involucri planis, laciniis 
recurvis. Prod. Leyd. 97. Carrot with plain rays to the 
involucrurn, and recurved jags. Daucus montanus 
lucidus. Tourn. Infl. 307. Shining maritime Carrot. 
4. Daucus ( Hifpidus ) caule hifpido, fegmentis foliorum 
latioribus. Carrot with a prickly ftalk, and broader fig- 
ments to the leaves. Paflinaca Oenanthes folio. Bocc. 
Rar. PI. 75. Parfnep with a IV at er Dropwort leaf. 
5. Daucus ( Creticus ) radiis involucri pinnatifidis, tim- 
bellis duplo longioribus, foliolis acutis. Carrot with 
wing-pointed rays to the involucrurn, which are twice the 
length of the umbel, and acute leaves. Daucus tenuifo- 
lius Creticus, radiis umbellae longioribus. Tourn. Infl. 
R. H. 308. Narrow-leaved Carrot of Crete, with rays 
longer than the umbel. 
6 . Daucus ( Mauritanicus ) feminibus hifpidis, flofculo 
centrali flerili carnofo, receptaculo communi hemif- 
phserico. Lin. Sp. 348. Carrot with hifpid feeds, the 
central flower barren, and the common receptacle hemif- 
pherical. Daucus Hifpanicus, umbella magna. Tourn. 
Infl. 308. 
7. Daucus ( [Vifnaga ) feminibus nudis. Hort. Cliff. 89. 
Carrot havmg naked feeds. Gingidium umbella oblon- 
ga. C. B. P. 1 5 1. Gingidium with an oblong umbel. 
8. Daucus ( Muricatus ) feminibus aculeatus. Lin. Sp. 
349. Carrot with prickly feeds. Caucalis major Dau- 
coides Tingitana. Mor. Hill. 3. p. 308. 
The firft fort is the common wild Carrot, which 
grows by the fide of fields, and in paflure grounds in 
many parts of England. The plants of this fort do 
not differ greatly in appearance from the Garden Car- 
rot, which has led fome perfons into an opinion of 
their being the fame plant ; but thofe who have at- 
tempted to cultivate the wild fort, are fully convinced 
of their being diftindl plants. I have tried to culti- 
vate the wild fort for many years, but could never 
get the feeds which were fown in the fpring to grow, 
upon which I fowed the feeds in autumn, part of 
which have come up well; thefe plants I cultivated 
in the fame manner as the Garden Carrot, but could 
not improve the roots in the leafl, for they continued 
to be fmall, flicky, and of a hot biting tafle; ,and 
this has been always the cafe, wherever the plants 
have been fown, therefore there can be no doubt of 
their being different plants. The feeds of this fort 
are ufed in medicine, and are efleemed good to bring 
away gravel : it is an excellent diuretic, but inflead 
of thefe feeds, the {hops are ufually fupplied with old 
feeds ot the Garden Carrot, when they have loft their 
vegetative quality, then the feedfmen fell them to 
the druggifts for medicinal ufe ; but certainly all feeds 
which are too old to grow, can have little virtue re- 
maining in them. 
There are feveral varieties of the Garden Carrots, 
which differ in the colour of their roots, and thefe 
variations may be continued, where there is proper 
care taken not to mix the different lorts together in 
the fame garden ; but the Orange Carrot is generally 
efteemed in London, where the yellow and the white 
Carrots are feldom cultivated. 
The dark red, or purple Carrot, I take to be a dif- 
tm£l fort from either of thefe ; but as it is much ten- 
derer, 1 have not had an opportunity of feeing it in the 
flower, tor the roots were all deftroyed by the firft 
frofts in autumn. The feeds of this fort were lent 
me from Aleppo, which fucceeded very well ; the 
roots were not fo large as thofe of the other forts of 
Carrots, and were of a purple colour, very like that 
of a deep-coloured Radifh ; they were very tender 
and fweet ; the leaves were finer cut than thofe of 
the common Carrot, and were lefs hairy. 
The fecond fort is commonly cultivated in gardens 
for the kitchen, and the different varieties of it are, 
in fome places, eileerned, though in London, the Q~ 
range Carrot is preferred to all the other. 
They are propagated at two or three different feafonsf 
or fomedmes oftener, where people are fond of young 
Carrots, whenever they can be procured. The firft 
feafon for flowing the feeds is foon after Chriftmas, if 
the weather is open, which fhould be in warm bor- 
ders, near walls, pales, or hedges, but they fhould 
not be fown immediately clofe thereto ; but a border 
of Lettuce, or other young fallad herbs, of about a 
foot wide, fhould be next the wall, &c. for if the 
Carrots were fown clofe to the wall, they would draw 
up weak, without making any tolerable roots. 
Thefe delight in a warm fandy foil which is light, 
and Ihould be dug pretty deep, that the roots may the 
better run down •, for if they meet with any obftruc- 
tion, they are very apt to grow forked, and {hoot out 
lateral roots, efpecially where the ground is too much 
dunged the fame year that the feeds are fown, which 
will alfo occafion their being worm-eaten ; it is there- 
fore the better method to dung the ground intended 
for Carrots the year before they are fown, that it 
may be confumed, and mixed with the earth ; but 
in luch places where there has not been ground fo 
prepared the year before, and there may be a necefl* 
fity for dunging it the fame year as the Carrots are 
fown, the dung fhould be well rotted which is laid 
upon it, and fhould be thinly fpread over the ground ; 
and in the digging of it into the ground, great care 
fhould be taken to difperfe it all through the ground, 
and not to bury it in heaps, for that will flop the 
roots of the Carrots in their downright growth, and 
caufe them to be foort and forky. Where the ground, 
is inclinable to bind, there cannot be too much care 
taken to break and divide the parts ; therefore in 
digging the land for Carrots, there foould never be 
large fpits taken, but they muft'be very thin, and the 
clods well broken ; which, if not attended to by the 
mailer, is feldom properly performed by workmen, 
who are too apt to hurry over their work, if they are 
not well obferved. 
The ground when dug Ihould be laid level and even, 
otherwife when the feeds are fown and the ground is 
raked over, part of the feeds will be buried too deep, 
and others will be in danger of being drawn up into 
heaps •, fo the plants will come up in bunches, and 
other parts of the ground be naked, which fhould al- 
ways be carefully avoided. 
The feeds have a great quantity of fmall forked 
hairs upon their borders, by which they clofely ad- 
here, fo that they are difficult to fow even, fo as not 
to come up in patches ; you fhould therefore rub it 
well through both hands, whereby the feed will be 
feparated before it is fown ; then you fhould choofe 
a calm day to fow it in, for if the wind blows, it will 
be impoffible to fow it equal, for the feeds being very 
light, will be blown into heaps. When the feed is 
fown, you Ihould tread the ground pretty clofe with 
your feet, that it may be buried, and then rake the 
ground level. 
When the plants are come up and have got four 
leaves, you fhould hoe the ground with a fmall hoe 
about three inches wide, cutting down all young 
weeds, and feparating the plants to four inches diftance 
each way, that they may get ftrength ; and in about 
a month or five weeks after, when the weeds bemn to 
grow again, you firouldhoe the ground over a fecond 
time, in which you fiiould be careful not to leave 
two Carrots clofe to each other, as alfo to feparate 
them to a greater diftance, cutting down all weeds, 
and {lightly ftirring the furface of the ground in every 
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