SEED-SAVING METHODS, WITH YIELDS 
PER ACRE, GROWERS’ PRICES, 
MARKET STATUS. 
ARTICHOKE. 
Artichoke proper is hereof treated, the sort cultivated 
in the kitchen garden for its flower-heads or buds as 
well as for portions of the leaf-stalk. 
It is a perennial of hardy nature, which gives in the 
first year but few flower-heads or seed, a growth of two 
years being necessary for the production of a full seed 
crop. 
To insure the finest and purest seeds, the better plan 
is to plant slips or suckers taken from established plants 
which have borne flower-heads possessing the character- 
istics of the variety. These slips should be taken off 
late in spring, or in extreme southern sections in Octo- 
ber, when they are of a height of six inches or so, and 
transplanted about four inches deep, in rows four feet 
apart, two feet in the row. Cultivate the crop and 
keep the soil loose and free from weeds. 
But when suckers are not to be had, then plants must 
be obtained from seed, which is sown early in spring, 
in drills one foot apart, seeds being covered one inch 
deep. When plants are several inches high, transplant 
in rows same as directed for slips. These plants in the 
second year should be gone over carefully, and only 
those which have given large flower-heads true to variety 
must be allowed to remain for seed. 
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