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KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. 



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CHAPTER V. 



Kitchen-garden Plants, arranged in Alphabetical order , with Di- 

 rections relative to the Propagation and Cultivation of each sort. 



119. The plants which are cultivated in the kitchen-garden are 

 either such as are for food, or for medicinal purposes. The former 

 are generally called vegetahles, and the latter herbs ; and then there 

 are pot-herbs and medicinal herbs, which, altogether, forms a 

 strange jumble and inconsistency ; everything being vegetable that 

 grows out of the earth, from a blade of grass to an oak-tree. The 

 best and most consistent way, therefore, is to give the name of 

 Kitchen-garden plants to all the things grown in the kitchen- 

 garden, except fruits, which will have a distinct Chapter allotted 

 to themselves. The alphabetical order is also the best, because 

 each article is referred to with so much convenience. The reader 

 will please to bear in mind what has been said in the foregoing 

 Chapter with regard to propagation and cultivation in general ; 

 that Chapter being written for the express purpose of preventing 

 the necessity of repeating, under every particular article, directions 

 for selecting the sorts, for saving and preserving the seed, for sow- 

 ing, for transplanting, and for after cultivation. The rules there 

 laid down are applicable to all kitchen-garden plants ; some addi- 

 tional rules given in this chapter will apply to each plant re- 

 spectively. After this preface, I begin the list of kitchen-garden 

 plants in the manner before described. 



120. 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 them 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 



