24 POPULAR VEGETABLES 



and selecting the seed carefully much better tubers 

 are obtained. 



The Chinese Artichoke is an excellent vegetable, 

 but the small size of the tubers is against a wide 

 popularity. 



Globe Artichoke. Ample space is necessary for 

 this Artichoke, a distance of four feet between the 

 rows being none too much, and half that distance 

 from plant to plant. The suckers should be placed 

 three together, as a clump gives a better return. 

 Trench the land deeply, manure heavily, and prepare 

 some time in advance of planting. In heavy land 

 it will be advisable to incorporate lighter material 

 or burnt refuse with the soil ; also to take care 

 that the plot is well drained. April is a good month 

 to plant, and in dry seasons give water freely with 

 liquid manure and salt dressings in showery weather 

 from June to September. Guano and salt form one 

 of the best foods for older plants not recently 

 manured ; give protection in the late autumn, and 

 after the old growths are cut away place some fine 

 ashes over the roots, and pack dry bracken litter 

 round the young growths, as these supply heads for 

 the following May. In cold or wet soils detach a 

 few suckers from the finest forms, and place in boxes 

 or frames for the next spring planting. If seed 

 is sown sow it under glass in pots or in rows in 

 April, but it is a mistake to raise plants in this way. 

 Globe Artichokes yield from May to September, and 

 it is well to cut the heads and place them in water 



