CULTIVATION Of VEGETABLES. 53 



CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES. 



The preceding pages are devoted solely to the most 

 practical and economical methods of preparing a garden 

 for the reception and culture of vegetables, etc., with such 

 general remarks on the tillage of the soil, the rotation of 

 crops, and other matters connected with the subject, as 

 will ensure the most favorable results. 



The present portion of the work will afford thorough in- 

 formation as to the most approved manner of sowing, 

 planting and cultivating all the plants that find a place in 

 a vegetable garden. 



Each will be treated separately, and the whole is ar- 

 ranged in alphabetical order for handy reference. There 

 is also introduced, at the end of the book, a monthly 

 Keminder, or general summary of the planting and other 

 work which is appropriate or necessary during each month. 



ARTICHOKE. 



Artichoke plants can be raised either from seeds, from 

 suckers, or from offshoots of old plants. The seed should 

 be sown toward the end of March or during April, in any 

 light, moist earth, not liable to bake, nor yet very sandy. 

 The seed drills should be about an inch deep and twelve 

 inches apart. A bed will last three or four years, and one 

 ounce of seed should produce about six hundred plants. 

 The Green Globe is the best (because the hardiest) variety 

 for our climate. When the plants are about nine or ten 

 inches high they should be transplanted into the bed in 

 which they are to be permanently growp, taking ad van- 



