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Sow more lettuce seed in the beginning, middle, and particularly 

 in the last week of the month, in order to have a regular and con- 

 stant supply for the table. The white Silesia is the best to sow at 

 this time, as it is not injured by the extreme heat. 



SPINAGE. 



In the last week of this month a good crop of spinage may be 

 sown for autumn' use; it will not then be so subject to run to seed as 

 in the former months. The round seeded kind is always preferable 

 for summer and autumn service. 



RADISHES. 



Radishes of every kind may be sown in the last week of this 

 mouth with a good prospect of success ; but particularly the white 

 and black Spanish, or winter sorts, of which you ought to sow a full 

 crop for autumn use. 



Sow, likewise, some of the short-top, salmon, and turnip-rooted 

 radishes ; should the season prove any way moist, they will succeed 

 tolerably well. Let all these kinds be now sown on moist loamy 

 ground. 



SOW CABBAGE SEED. 



Sow some of the early York, Battersea, and sugar loaf kinds of 

 cabbage for a supply of young greens during the autumn; the 

 hearts of these are very delicious when grown to a tolerable size, 

 and are, by many, very much admired; when used in that state they 

 are called coleworts, having totally superseded the true colewort, 

 which was formerly cultivated for boiled salads. Some savoy seed 

 may also be sown at this time for a late winter crop. 



J*VjJ ARTICHOKES. 



If you desire to have large artichokes you must, in the first week 

 of this month, if not done in June, in order to encourage the main 

 head, cut of all the suckers or small heads which are produced from 

 the sides of the stems, and these may now be dressed for the table. 



The maturity of a full grown artichoke is apparent by the open- 

 ing of the scales ; and it should always be cut off before the flower 

 appears in the centre. 



As soon as the head or heads are collected from any stem let it be 

 immediately cut down close to the ground. This practice is too often 

 disregarded, but such neglect is utterly wrong; for the stems, if 

 permitted to remain, would greatly impoverish the roots, and injure 

 them much more than is generally imagined. 



Where cardoons are in request, and they were not planted out last 

 month, it should be done in the first week of this, as directed on 

 page 427. 



