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THE CARROT.
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to its value for stock, its great productiveness, and its keep-
ing properties, it is considered the best of all the sorts for
field culture. A well-enriched soil will yield from six hun-
dred to eight hundred bushels per acre. The seed is usually-
sown in drills, about fourteen inches apart, but sometimes on
ridges, eighteen or twenty inches apart, formed by turning
two furrows together ; the ridges yielding the largest roots,
and the drills the greatest quantity.
Two pounds of seed are usually allowed to an acre ; but, if
sown by a well-regulated machine, about one-half this quan-
tity will be sufficient.
Long Red Belgian.
Yellow Belgian. Yellow Green-top Belgian.
Root very long, fusiform, contracted a little
towards the crown, but nearly of uniform thickness
from the top down half the length. Size large ;
when grown in deep soil, often measuring twenty
inches in length, and nearly three inches in diame-
ter. The crown rises four or five inches above the
surface of the ground, and is of a green color ; be-
low the surface, the skin is reddish-yellow. Flesh
orange-red.
This variety, like the White, originated in Bel-
gium. In Europe it is much esteemed by agricul-
turists, and is preferred to the White Belgian, as it
is not only nearly as productive, but has none of its
defects.
Long Yellow.
Long Lemon.
Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the
crown, and from twelve to fourteen inches in depth.
Skin pale yellow, or lemon-color, under ground ; but