330 GATIDEN MAITAGEMENT. 



Give foiir feet one way, and three or four feet the other. It should not be 

 delayed after the first week this month. 



929. Globe Articholcs. — The best method of propagating these is to take 

 offsets from them in Api-il or May, and plant them, three feet apart, in a row, 

 and the rows five feet apart. They bear little or nothing the same season, 

 iDut produce abundantly the following. To keep them in good bearing con- 

 dition, it is advisable to plant a fresh row every year, and remove one of the 

 old ones. If they are protected with straw, fern, or leaves, in winter, they 

 bear rather earlier in summer ; but many leave them unprotected. They are 

 then killed to the ground, but break up strong in the spring. Before planting 

 them, the soil should be trenched three feet deep. The foregoing are all of 

 the same group, that is, deepeners, and the same rules hold good for their 

 culture ; i. e. the ground should be deeply trenched and well manured, except 

 in the case of horseradish ; and as it is advisable to give other crops the benefit 

 of ground vacated by them, it is as well to adopt the afore-mentioned rule, — to 

 plant fresh rows of them every year and remove some of the old, either for 

 use or forcing. 



930. Horseradish should be grown on an open spot. It is a mistake to sup- 

 pose this crop can be stowed away in any corner or out-of-the-way place ; it 

 requires high culture to j)roduce it good, and it repays good treatment as well 

 as any crop. My mode of culture is to trench the ground three feet, but to 

 be rather sparing of manure, as this produces a tendency to fork : the ground 

 should be well broken any time during the winter. I take up some old roots, 

 trim them for the kitchen, cutting off the crowns about an inch and a half 

 long, — these latter are for planting ; I then with a dibber, which is marked 

 two feet from the lower end (that being the depth they are to be planted)-, 

 make the holes two feet apart in the rows, and the rows three feet apart ; then 

 with a lath-stick split at one end, the crown is inserted in the sUt, thrust down 

 to the bottom of the hole, and pushed out by another stick, which is thrust 

 down for the purpose. I never fill up the holes, which I think is unnecessary, 

 as they gradually fill as the horseradish nears the surface. If a fresh row is 

 planted every year, and another taken up, the crop will be kept in condition, 

 iind a fresh piece of improved ground offered every year for other ciups. 



931. Parsley, Chervil, <L-c. should be sown for the purpose of keeping a stock 

 of young plants to gather from, as young leaves are best. 



932. Spinach may still be sown, and is often useful for colouring green pea- 

 soup in the summer. Sow in a shady spot if possible : it will last longer. 



933. Potatoes for the main crop to be got in this month. As the ground 

 is more likely to be dry at this time, they may be dibbed in whole, thus 

 yielding food for the young shoot till it can find its own, — a most reasonable 

 assumption, and worthy of adoption. When potatoes are cut, it is best to 

 •expose them for a day or two, to render the surface of the cut callous. In 

 planting them, let it be in rows two feet apart ; or, if space is limited, allow 

 three feet, which admits of planting later crops between, before they are taken 

 vp. Although little is gained by allowing too much room, much is lost by 



