V. KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS, ARTICHOKE. 





CHAPTER V. 



Kitchen-garden Plants, arranged in Alphabetical order, with 

 Directions relative to the Propagation and Cultivation of 

 each sort. 



118. THE plants which are cultivated in the kitchen- 

 garden are either such as are for food, or for medicinal 

 purposes. The former are generally called vegetables, 

 and the latter, herbs ; and then there are pot-herbs and 

 medicinal herbs, which, altogether, forms a strange 

 jumble and inconsistency ; every thing being a vegetable 

 that grows out of the earth, from a blade of grass to an 

 oak-tree. The best and most consistent way, therefore, 

 is to give the name of Kitchen-garden plants to all the 

 things grown in the kitchen-garden, except fruits, which 

 will have a distinct Chapter allotted to themselves. The 

 alphabetical order is also the best, because each article 

 is referred to with so much convenience. The reader will 

 please to bear in mind what has been said in the fore- 

 going Chapter with regard to propagation and cultivation 

 in general ; that Chapter being written for the express 

 purpose of preventing the necessity of repeating, under 

 every particular article, directions for selecting the sorts, 

 for saving and preserving the seed, for sowing, for trans- 

 planting and for after cultivation. The rules there laid 

 down are applicable to all kitchen-garden plants ; some 

 additional rules given in this Chapter, will apply to each 



