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her or November. The Globe Artichoke, which producer 

 large globular heads, is best for general culture, the heads 

 being considerably larger, and the eatable parts more thick 

 and plump. 



Both sorts may be raised from the seed, or young suckers 

 taken from old plants in the spring. A plantation of 

 Artichokes will continue to produce good heads six or seven 

 years, and sometimes longer; but it must be observed, that 

 if a supply of this delicious vegetable be required through- 

 out the season, a small plantation should be made from 

 suckers every spring, for a successive crop, as the young 

 plants will continue to produce their heads in perfection, 

 after the crops of the old standing ones are over. 



The most likely way to obtain a supply of Artichokes 

 from seed, is to sow the seed the latter end of March, or 

 early in April, in a bed of good rich earth, or it may be 

 planted in drills one inch deep, and about twelve inches 

 apart. The ground should be light and moist, not such as 

 is apt to become bound up by heat, or that in consequence 

 of too large a proportion of sand, is likely to become vio- 

 lently hot in summer, for this is extremely injurious to these 

 plants. After the plants are up, they should be kept free 

 from weeds, and the earth often loosened around them. 



Thebjsiness of transplanting may be performed in cloudy 

 or wet weather, at any time after the plants are from nine to 

 twelve inches high. Having fixed upon a proper soil and 

 situation, lay on it a good quantity of rotten dung, and 

 trench the ground one good spade or eighteen inches deep, 

 incorporating the manure therewith ; this being done, take 

 up the plants, and after shortening their tap roots a little, and 

 dressing their leaves, plant them with a dibble, in rows five 

 feet asunder, and two feet plant from plant in the row, leav- 

 ing part of their green tops above ground, and the hearts of 

 the plants free from any earth over them, and give each 

 plant a little water to settle the roots. 



The winter dressing of Artichokes is an important opera- 

 tion ; on it depends much of their future success. This 

 should not be wiven them as long as the season continues 



