CHINESE AETIG BOXES. 



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The Globe Artichoke, Cynara Scolymus, does not provide us with 

 underground tubers, but with scaly green or purple flower heads, the 

 size of an Orange, or bigger. These balls are cooked and served with 

 melted butter, and the green or purplish scales are tender and agree- 

 able. It was in Berlin that I first tasted Globe Artichokes, and a 

 clever chef hsid served them up very tastily, but I am not going to say 

 that even in the hands of the best of cooks they are anything to go 



into raptures over. 



The Globe Artichoke gives us, 

 however, another dish. It is not 

 uncommon to cut the plants over 

 in summer, and when the young 

 growths which follow have pushed 

 a couple of feet or so, to blanch 



Fia. 45.-THE CHINESE ARTICHOKE. 



A, top and roots. 



B, how to pkmt. 



These are 



them with straw and soil, 

 called Chards. 



A stock of Globe Artichokes may be 

 secured in the first place by sowing seeds 

 in spring, and putting out the resulting 

 plants about 1 yard apart ; but when a 

 plantation has been made, the stock can be perpetuated by suckers . 



The plants like a deep, richly manured soil, and abundance of 

 liquid manure. If their w^ants are met in this direction, and they are 

 allowed to stand 4 feet apart all ways, they will make fine clumps. 



When they have finished for the year they may be mulched with 

 fine coal ashes or burnt refuse, and litter. 



Seedsmen usually offer two or three varieties of Globe Artichokes, 

 from which the Large Green or Giant Purple may be chosen. 



