44 ARTICHOKE. 



Arsenic is frequently used in the manufacture of glass and 

 the nicer kinds of porcelain ; for this reason, it is not well to 

 set aside acids in cups and drinking-glasses, with an inten- 

 tion of using the liquid, as the alkali in the glass may be 

 sufficient, when brought in conjunction with acids, to hold 

 the arsenic in solution. Arsenic is used in the manufacture 

 of shot, and when shot is used to cleanse bottles, care should 

 be taken to throw them all out in the final rinsing. Many 

 paints have arsenic for their basis. 



When arsenic has been swallowed, give large quantities 

 of sugar and water, and at the same time administer a gen- 

 erous dose of ipecacuanha, which may be repeated ; if the 

 latter cannot be had immediately, two or three spoonfuls of 

 made mustard, diluted in warm water, may induce vomiting. 

 Oil is never to be taken till the poison is entirely ejected. 

 After the patient has happily passed the crisis, some simple 

 matters, such as barley or rice water, milk, or flax-seed tea, 

 can be taken to quiet the stomach. 



ARTICHOKE (Cynara). There are two varieties, the 

 oval green Cynara Scolymus, or French, and Cynara hor- 

 tensis, or Globe Artichoke. The latter is considered best 

 for common culture, the heads being larger, and producing 

 more eatable substance, and being without the strong, mawk- 

 ish, perfumed taste peculiar to the French, or oval green. 

 Both varieties may be cultivated from the seed or sucker 

 taken from large plants early in spring. It is perennial, but, 

 like everything else, it is the better for frequent renewals ; 

 a bed will, however, under favorable circumstances of soil 

 and climate, continue to produce heads five or six years. 

 They require a loose, light, and moist soil. The seed should 

 be sown about an inch deep, and at such distances as to 

 allow the earth, when the plants are up, to be lightened 

 around them. If a plant throws out a great many suck- 



