VEGETABLES ARTICHOKE. 



in this state in various forms of cookery, besides being 

 used as a salad. 



It is a vegetable of easy culture, originally propagated 

 from seeds until a stock is secured, after which it is 

 readily increased by suckers from the root. These are 

 planted out in April or May, in rows from three to four 

 feet apart, and two feet 

 between the plants, care 

 being taken that the 

 plants are well firmed 

 in planting, and if the 

 weather is dry, they 

 must be freely watered 

 until they start to grow. 

 The plantation, the first 

 season, will only give a 

 partial crop ; but, as it 

 is a perennial plant, 

 after being once planted 

 the same bed will re- 

 main in bearing for 

 years. The plant may 

 be said to be entirely 

 hardy south of Mason 

 and Dixon's Line, but 

 north of that it requires 

 to be protected by cov- 

 ering between the plants 

 with six or eight inches of leaves or coarse manure. 



THE VARIETIES are the Green Globe and Common 

 Green, differing but little, except in the form of the 

 flower-head, the former being globular, the latter conical. 

 It is claimed by some that the Common Green is more 

 hardy and productive, but w r e have grown them side by 

 side for years and never have observed any difference, 

 except the very trifling one in the shape of the flower-head. 



Fig. 16. GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKE. 



