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inches above the root. Give a hearty watering, if 

 the weather be dry. A little spinage or turnip, 

 maybe drilled in between the lines, which will come 

 off before the plants spread far, or interfere with 

 them. 



Of Spring'dre'ssmg Artichokes. 

 Lot the littery part of the covering (see Novem- 

 ber) be removed from the rows- of old artichokes, 

 and dig in the smaller part of it among them; pre- 

 viously reducing the number of plants on each stool 

 to three or four of the strongest, as otherwise they 

 would grow too thick, and the heads would conse- 

 quently be rendered diminutive. Old stools should 

 not stand above six or seven years, as they then be- 

 gin to produce tricing heads. The best way is to 

 plant H few every year, and take up a few every 

 year ; by which mode also a succession maybe had 

 each season, the new planted ones coming in, ia 

 jtutumn, after the others are done. 



Of souwg Asparagus. 

 Asjiaragus delights in a ricli deep sand. It may 

 be produced in great perfection, however, in light 

 loamy earth, well enriched with dungs, or with com- 

 post. In any soil, sea-v.eed suits this vegetable 

 well ; and it has been produced in very great per- 

 fection in a sheer sand, without any other manure 

 whatever. It docs not thrive well in stifli wet soils j 

 nor in any that are less than half a yard in depth. 

 Of course, the land should be well trenched, to th^ 

 depth of thirty inches, if it v.ill admit of trenching' 



