SEED-SAVING METHODS, WITH YIELDS 



PER ACEE, GROWERS' PRICES, 



MARKET STATUS. 



ARTICHOKE. 



Artichoke proper is hereof treated, the sort cultivated 

 in the kitchen garden for its flower-heads or buds as 

 well as for portions of the leaf-stalk. 



It is a perennial of hardy nature, which gives in the 

 first year but few flower-heads or seed, a growth of two 

 years being necessary for the production of a full seed 

 crop. 



To insure the finest and purest, seeds, the better plan 

 is to plant slips or suckers taken from established plants 

 which have borne flower-heads possessing the character- 

 istics of the variety. These slips should be taken off 

 late in spring, or in extreme southern sections in Octo- 

 ber, when they are of a height of six inches or so, and 

 transplanted about four inches deep, in rows four feet 

 apart, two feet in the row. Cultivate the crop and 

 keep the soil loose and free from weeds. 



But when suckers are not to be had, then plants must 

 be obtained from seed, which is sown early in spring, 

 in drills one foot apart, seeds being covered one inch 

 deep. When plants are several inches high, transplant 

 in rows same as directed for slips. These plants in the 

 second year should be gone over carefully, and only 

 those which have given large flower-heads true to variety 

 must be allowed to remain for seed. 



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