KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. CHAP. 



plant respectively. After this preface, I begin the list of 

 kitchen-garden plants in the manner before described. 



119. ARTICHOKE. This plant is propagated either 

 from seed or from offsets. If from the former, sow the 

 seed in rows a foot apart, in the month of March ; thin 

 the plants to a foot apart as soon as they are an inch 

 high ; keep them cleanly weeded, and the ground moved, 

 now-and-then, during the summer : and, in the autumn, 

 they will be large enough to plant out where they are to 

 stand and to bear. They are things that require a good 

 deal of room, and a very rich soil. Dung, which would 

 be mischievous in some cases, can do no harm here. The 

 ground ought to be fresh dug in the month of October, 

 the plants taken up, and the points of the roots tipped 

 with a sharp knife. They should be planted in clumps, 

 at three feet apart in the row of clumps, and the rows 

 should be about five feet apart. Each clump should have 

 four good plants in it, and these should be well fastened 

 in the ground, each plant standing at about nine inches 

 from the other. When winter comes on, if hard frosts 

 come, the clumps should be covered pretty thickly with 

 litter, which, however, should be taken off again as soon 

 as the frost is out of the ground; but no plant which has 

 been covered to be protected from the frost, should be 

 uncovered, and the sun left to come upon the ground 

 where it stands, before tke thaw has completely taken 

 place. In the spring, the ground about the clumps 

 should be moved up a little with a fork, and nicely broken 

 in dry weather, in March or April. These plants will 

 bear fruit the first year j and, if properly managed, will 

 continue to bear for a great many years. When their 



