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CHAPTER IV. 



CULTURE OF KITCHEN VEGETABLES* 



SECTION L 



ARTICHOKES. 



THIS plant will grow freely in light 

 loam of any kind, provided it be well 

 enriched with compoft, ftable-dung, marl, 

 or fea-weed. It requires a depth of foil 

 from twenty-four to thirty inches, to pro- 

 duce it in perfection. In ftiffwet lands, 

 artichokes frequently perifli in winter* 



It is propagated with facility by offsets 

 from the old ftools, which are produced 

 every fpring in great abundance, and are 

 to be planted in patches of two or three 

 plants each, at the diftance of four feet, 

 patch from patch each way, watered fre- 

 quently in dry weather, the firft fummer^ 

 and kept clean of weeds. 



As this plant is very tender, and eafily 



killed by froft, the rows, &c. fhould be 



Y 2 carefully 



