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New Principles of Gardening. 
2. Its Defcription. 
ARTICHOKES being univerfally known, I need not give any 
Defcription thereof; but as they by Degeneration are trow be- 
come of many Kinds, fome good, and other very bad, I fhall 
by the way advife, that when Plantations of this Herb is made, 
that the Slips are taken from a very good Kind, as from thofe 
‘planted in the Neat-Houfe Gardens near London ,. or other 
Places, where the Kind is known to be very good. 
3. Fee Temperature is windy, and medicinal Virtues little 
or any at all. : 
4. The Parts for Ufe. 
The young Leaves blanch’d, and the Chokes when fully grown, 
before they offer to blofiom. 
5. The Quantity of either is at Pleafure. 
6. Their Cultivation. “ 
Artichokes delight in a warm, rich and deep Soil,. and are 
propagated from Suckers or Slips, taken off and-planted in March 
or April, in Holes or Cups as pickling Cucumbers, about two 
Feet and half apart in Lines, and about four Feet diftant from 
cach other. In every Hole or Cup you mutt plant three Plants 
in the Form of an equilateral Triangle, at about cight or nine 
inches apart, having firft prun’d their Heads to about the fame 
Number of Inches, 
This young Plantation being kept very well water’d will 
thrive very flrongly, and many of them produce good Chokes 
about September, but 1 cannot recommend that they fhould ; 
for it very often happens that they die after, or are greatly 
weaken'd thereby. Therefore to prevent the Lofs of your 
Plantation, as foon as the young Chokes appear, break them 
off, and the Plants will be greatly ftrengthen’d thereby. 
‘When you flip Artichokes, be careful of leaving-a fufficient 
“number of Slips behind fora Crop, which ought always to be 
are weaker, two or three at the moft. 
confidered, with re{peé@ to the ftrength of the Plant. | 
Therefore when your Plants are very ftrong, you may allow 
to cach Root, three Heads, or four at the moft, and to thofe that 
When 
