EUROPE VEGETABLES. 



ANISE. Hind. SONF. Sown in a light soil after the rains, and 

 allowed to remain where sown, thinning out the weaker plants. 



ARTICHOKE. Of the four species only two are cultivated for 

 use. They have large pinnatifid leaves, erect, and of about two 

 or three feet long. From the centre arises a long stalk, which 

 gives off branches, on the top of which is a large round head 

 composed of numerous oval scales enclosing the florets sitting 

 on the receptacle, commonly called the artichoke bottom, and 

 which, with the fleshy part on the base of the scales, is the only 

 part eaten. 



The two sorts grown are, the French conical spine-leafed, and 

 round Dutch globular-headed. The seed may be sown in June, 

 and continued during the rains ; the soil should be light and of 

 a good loamy description ; the seed sown at least six inches 

 apart. When they are in four or six leaves, they may be trans- 

 planted in rows, and in open situations and good soil, three or 

 four feet asunder. The ground should be of a light consistence 

 and well manured. Let the trenches be about six inches deep, 

 and at least from one to two feet broad : they will require occa- 

 sional irrigation if the weather is dry, after having been well 

 watered by the hand. When first removed, at the latter end of 

 the rains, and the plants have arrived at almost their full size, 

 a small black fly collects upon them in the greatest abundance, 

 and destroys the whole of the leaves. This also happens to 

 plants raised from seed sown in October, or at the close of the 

 rains. When the plants, in January, February and March, 

 have arrived at their full perfection, they may be propagated 

 from slips that grow on the side of the old plants, which wither 

 and dry as soon as the fruit is ripe and gone to seed. Care 

 must be taken in removing both plants and shoots, that a suffi- 

 cient quantity of earth is taken up with the roots, so that the 

 spongioles are uninjured. When they appear to have taken 



