Nov.] The Kitchen Garden. 499 



The leaves mufl be cat down clofe to the ground, re- 

 ferving only the fmall central leaves and young fhoots 

 which arife immediately from the heart of the plant. 



Then you may praflife either of the following methods 

 in landing up the plants. The firil: is this : lee trenches 

 about twenty inches wide be marked out between all the 

 rows, and let the faid trenches be dug oat a good fpade 

 deep, and lay the earth as you dig it out ridge-ways, in 

 a gradual rounding manner, over the rov/s of plants, ob- 

 ferving to cover the crowns of them at leaft fix inches 

 thick, leaving only the central leaves or heart of the 

 plants uncovered, and drawing the earth clofe about 

 ihem J but at the approach of hard frolls let them bealfo 

 covered with 'Jong litter; likewife in fevere weather, fill 

 the trenches with dry long litter, to prevent the froft en- 

 tering that way. 



But in landing up thefe plants, inllead of digging out 

 ' trenches as above, praftife the following method : which 

 ^is rather to be preferred as the moil effeftual. 



The line to be fet exadtly along the middle of each of 

 the fpaces between the rows ofplants, and with your fpade 

 cut a mark according to the line : by this you may form as 

 it were beds, four feet and a half or five feet broad, with 

 one row of plants Handing along the middle of every fuch 

 bed; then the ground is to be dug, but this mull be done 

 regularly bed by bed lengthways of each, digging clofe 

 about and between all the plants; at the fame time 

 working or rearing the earth gradually from the above 

 lines or marks, on each fide the row of plants, into a 

 ridge towards the middle, and clofe about the row of 

 plants as above ; the row made to range exaftly in the 

 middle of the faid ridge; the ridge to bemiade flopingott 

 each fide. 



Thefe are the bell methods to be taken to protefl ar- 

 tichokes from froll; fome indeed never land them up, 

 but, inliead of that, lay fome long dung over the plants ; 

 in frolly weather; but this is not fo efFeftual, for it 

 will not keep out the froll fo well as a good ridge of earth. 

 But notwithltanding, if the winter fliould prove un- 

 commonly fevere, it will alfo be proper to lay over every 

 ridge a covering of ilraw or other dry long litter, as alfo 

 in the trenches : and this, together with the ridge of 

 earth, will eiFe(^ually fecure the artichokes. 



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