. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. A Plant Transferred with Plenty op EarthIS NOT Checked in Growth. VEGETABLES AND THEIR CULTURE 31 There are numerous varieties of carrots, but the best known early-varieties are Early Short Scarlet and Early Scarlet Horn; for mediumearly, Model, Danvers Half Long Orange and Danvers Half Long Scarlet,Oxheart and Rubicon are popular. Long Orange is the leading late long-rooted variety. For the early crop, seed should be sown as early in the spring as theground can be prepared. It is customary to allow about a foot of spa
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. A Plant Transferred with Plenty op EarthIS NOT Checked in Growth. VEGETABLES AND THEIR CULTURE 31 There are numerous varieties of carrots, but the best known early-varieties are Early Short Scarlet and Early Scarlet Horn; for mediumearly, Model, Danvers Half Long Orange and Danvers Half Long Scarlet,Oxheart and Rubicon are popular. Long Orange is the leading late long-rooted variety. For the early crop, seed should be sown as early in the spring as theground can be prepared. It is customary to allow about a foot of spacebetween rows for the early varieties and fifteen inches for the late. Theearly kinds may be thinned to stand two or three inches apart in the row. Strain Tests of Cabbage at The Pennsylvania State College,Showing First Cutting. Note that only two heads of cabbage were marketable at the first cutting in Row 13. while the late sorts should be four to six inches apart. Fairly liberal appli-cations of phosphoric acid and potash are considered valuable for thecarrot. It is easily kept until late winter by storing in pits or in coolcellars, where the roots should be covered with moist sand or soil. Cauliflower.—Cauliflower is considered the most refined member ofthe cabbage family. The heads are more delicate in quality than cabbage,kale or even Brussels sprouts. It is also more difficult to grow than cab-bage. This crop has two marked tendencies: first, not to form heads;and second, for the heads to bolt or button instead of forming hard, 32 SUCCESSFUL FARMING compact heads. The failure of this crop is very frequently attributed tothe use of poor seed, and there is no question but that good seed is a mostimportant factor in the gro
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