KITCHEN VEGETABLES. 4% 



KITCHEN VEGETABLES. 



Of planting Artichokes. 



PLANTATIONS of artichokes may be made about 

 the middle or end of the month, according to the 

 forwardness of the season. This plant requires a 

 light, rich, deep soil, to produce it in perfection. 

 The strongest crops I recollect having ever seen, 

 grew in rather a mossy earth, that had been trenched 

 fully a yard in depth, and had been well enriched 

 with dung, and limed. The plants were generally 

 covered before winter, with a mixture of stable litter 

 and sea-weed. 



They are propagated by sets, which rise plenti- 

 fully about the old stools. The ground should be 

 trenched, or dug to its full depth, if that were even 

 a yard, and should be well enriched with dung, or 

 compost, to suit the nature of soil. See the sec- 

 tion on Soils and Manures. Plant in patches of three 

 sets each, at a foot apart, and four feet from centre 

 to centre of each patch. Observe to plant no sets 

 that have not fibres, as otherwise they will not suc- 

 ceed well, and do not plant too deep. Crop the 

 leaves so as to reduce the sets to the length of six 



