ARTICHOKE 5 



Distances, rows three to five feet apart; plants two 

 to four feet in the row, according to variety. 



Depth, one-half to one inch. 



Sow seed under glass in March or April. Pricked 

 out into pots, to avoid setting back, and set out-of- 

 doors when frosts are past, seedlings should give edible 

 heads the same summer. 



Sown outdoors in early May, either in hills where 

 the plants are to stand (distances as above, five or six 

 seeds in a hill, thin to one in a hill) or in a seed-bed 

 (drills eighteen inches to two feet apart, seeds one-half 

 inch apart ; thin to twelve to eighteen inches when well 

 up), and transplanted the next spring to their perma- 

 nent positions, the plants will not give edible heads till 

 the second summer. 



Culture. If not in a moist place, preserve the sur- 

 face mulch with care, and water in drought. 



Fertilizing. Beyond regular enriching of the soil, 

 no special fertilizer is required, unless plants are to be 

 brought into their third or fourth year, when they 

 should be fed heavily. Seedlings, and old plants in 

 spring, respond well to nitrate of soda or to liquid 

 manure. 



In the fall of thejirst year, cut down the plants, and 

 mulch over winter. If banked with earth, protect the 

 heart of the plant from dirt by tying over it its own 

 leaves. 



Treatment of the established bed. In spring uncover 



