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To keep up the succession in September and October, a few rows 

 should be planted a month later than recommended above ; and if 

 removed carefully with good roots, shaded with a few boughs, and well 

 "watered, they soon begin to grow, and yield globes at a time when 

 they remain longer in good condition, and are most esteemed when 

 other second-course vegetables are getting scarce. In some cases we 

 have attained this end by merely lifting a few rows late in ]May with 

 balls, cutting away some of the roots, without dividing the stools, and 

 replanting them. This checks the growth and retards them. 



As soon as the globes are cut the stems should be cut away, and the 

 leaves removed as they decay. To protect them from severe frost, 

 a thick mulching of stable-litter, or leaves covered with litter, is suffi- 

 cient. In laying it on, place it close up round the hearts of the plants. 

 In spring this dressing can be dug into the ground about the roots 

 when all danger of severe frost is past. 



THE JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. 



This is, to the uninitiated, a most uncouth and uninviting-looking 

 vegetable ; but it is wonderful how palatable and tempting-like a 

 good kitchen artist can make it before he passes it iip-stairs. Seeing 

 that — like the sun-flower, to which it is allied — this subject is from 

 America, we might wonder why Jerusalem should be applied to it. 

 The name, however, is a corrugation of Girasole, meaning sun-turning. 

 Being a tribe to be found only in large gardens, and so very easily 

 cultivated, we do not intend to say much of it. It requires to be 

 grown very much in the same way as a Potato. It makes the finest 

 tubers in a dry loamy soil enriched with leaf-mould. Instead of 

 letting it be on the same piece of soil for years, as is often done, to 

 get fine tubers it should be planted afresh every year in rows a 

 yard apart and 10 inches or a foot between the sets, and 6 inches 

 deep. When the tops have withered they can be cut over, and some 

 litter spread over the ground, and the tubers dug up as required ; or 

 they may be lifted and pitted, or otherwise stored, like Potatoes. The 

 end of February or early part of March is a good time to plant. 

 Choose large tubers instead of small ones, as is sometimes practised. 



BEET. 



This much-esteemed esculent is supposed to be a native of the warmer 

 countries of Europe, and to have been introduced into this country by 

 the Romans. According to chemical analyses. Beet contains much more 

 nutritive matter than any other root excepting the Potato, Nearly 

 twelve per cent of it consists of saccharine or sugar matter, and the 



