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for grapes: and we intend now to address our female 

 patrons who have been so liberal in our support. 



Every lady whose name is on our books shall be 

 welcome to a handful of cuttings from this grape-vine, 

 if she will be at the trouble to send for them at our 

 office next spring : and we will warrant each cutting to 

 growj if she will expend upon it five minutes' attention. 

 We make the same offer to future female subscribers. 



They will find this grape quite as ornamental, and 

 not half so troublesome, as the geranium ; then all its 

 fruit will be net gain. 



THE ENGLISH ARTICHOKE. 



We have been requested, by a gentleman of Missis- 

 sippi, to direct the attention of our farmers to the more 

 extensive cultivation of the English artichoke, as an 

 excellent article of food for hogs. It is now cultivated 

 by some of our farmers, but upon too small a scale, 

 considering its great value. We learn that Judge 

 Caruthers, and Mr. F. H. Gordon, of Smith county, 

 have about twelve acres each now growing, which 

 will afford food for near a hundred hogs from the 1st of 

 November till planting time. 



The artichoke requires but little labor in tilling, and 

 is very productive. The roots will remain in the 

 ground safe during the whole of the winter ; the stalk 

 and the foliage furnishing an excellent protection from 

 the frosts, and enriching the soil greatly. The hogs 

 can be let on them the 1st of November, and remain till 

 spring, when they will be in prime order. A portion 

 of the ground cultivated should be set apart for seed ; 

 the seed to remain in the earth where it grows till 

 spring, then taken and planted about the time sweet 

 potatoes are planted, with about the same amount of 



