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ground, or the place for each plant hollowed 

 bafon form, at four feet and a half dillance 

 at lead, as they require large fcope to grow, 

 and confiderable fpace of ground to land therrf 

 up ; give water as foon as planted^ and occa- 

 fionally till they have taken good root, and 

 begin to advance in giowth, after which, 

 keep them clean from weeds by occafional 

 hoeing in Summer and Autumn, loofening 

 alTo the ground about the plants, and whea 

 they are three feet high, begin to earth them 

 up as hereafter explained. 



Or cardoons may be raifed by fowing the 

 feed at once where the plants are to remain,- 

 by which they will receive no check by removal 

 in their large growth j fow the feed in fmalf 

 patches a little hollowed, two or three feedrf 

 in each, the patches four feet and half afun-i 

 der, and when the plants are up, thin them 

 to one of the llrongeft in each patch. ' 



In both methods of raifing the plants, they,- 

 in their large advanced growth, when three to 

 four feet high, or more, in Augufl, Septem- 

 ber and October, miift be landed up to blanch" 

 cr svhiten ; begin by firft tying the leaves of 

 each plant together with hay or llraw bands, 

 then digging and breaking the ground, form- 

 ing a good bottom fpace, earth up round each 

 plant one or two feet high, and as they ad- 

 vance in height, tie up the leaves accord- 

 ingly, and ]and them up in proportion,- 

 giving the full or final earthing in October, 

 as nigh as poffible, to blanch them a confi- 

 derable length. ': 



After 



