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they would grow too thick, and th heads, 

 in confequence, would be rendered fmalL 



One hoeing will generally be fufficient 

 For the feafon, as hardly any weed will 

 grow under their foliage, and thefe will 

 foon cover the whole ground. 



The above culture is to be repeated 

 every feafon, for the old ftools ; and where 

 a fucceflion of Artichokes are in requeft, 

 a few young ones fhould be planted every 

 year. They will produce in autumn, in 

 fucceffion to the old ones, and laft till the 

 froft deftroys them. 



Old ftools fhould not be fuffered to re- 

 main above feven or eight years in the 

 fame fpot, otherwife they produce diminu- 

 tively. 



SECTION II. 



ASPARAGUS. 



THIS vegetable is moft fuccefsfully pro- 

 duced on a light fandy loam of at 

 leaft two feet in depth. And the beft ma- 

 nures, in this cafe, are a compoft of ftable 

 or cow dung, hogs-dung, fea-weed, marl, 

 3 and 



