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KITCHEN VEGETABLES. 



Of planting Ariicho/ces, 



JTeantations of artichokes may be made about 

 the middle or the end of the month, according to 

 the forwardness of the season. This plant requir(?s 

 a light, rich, deep soil, to produce it in perfection. 

 The strongest crops I recollect having ever seen, 

 grew in rather a mossy earth, that had been trench* 

 ed fully a yard in depth, and had been well enrich- 

 ed with dung, and limed. The plants were general- 

 ly covered, before winter, with a mixture of stable 

 litter and sea-weed. 



They are propagated by sets, which rise plenti- 

 fully about the old stools. The ground should be 

 trenched, or dug to its full depth, if that were even 

 a vard, and should be well enriched witli dunir, or 

 compost, to suit the nature of soil. See the sec- 

 tion on Soils and Manures. Plant in patches of three 

 sets each, at a foot apart, and four feet from centre 

 to centre of each patch. Observe to plant no sets 

 that have not fibres, as otherwise they will not suc- 

 ceed well, and do not plant too deep. Crop the 

 leaves so as to reduce the sets to the Icni^th of six 



