366 THE KITCHEN GARDENER. 



SECTION.XL 

 CARDOONS 



ARE^n requeft in many families. 

 They are moft fuccefsfully produ- 

 ced on a deep fandy loam, not too rich. 



Prepare fingle trenches, in manner as is 

 pradiied by many for celery, at the di- 

 flance of four or five feet from centre to 

 centre, and juft as deep and wide as a fingle 

 fpit will make them, laying the mould in 

 the interfpaces. Point in a little compoft 

 manure in the bottom; draw a drill an 

 'inch deep in the centre of the trench, and 

 drop the feeds at two inches apart. The 

 feafon is, from the middle of May to the 

 middle of June. 



When the plants are two or three inches 

 in height, thin them out to about nine or 

 ten apart. Mould up in all refpefts as for 

 celery, with this difference only, that the 

 leaves muft be gathered, and tied together 

 each time w^ith a bit of old matting, other- 

 wife the mould would get between them in 

 the procefs of blanching, 



Cardoons 



