OF ESCULENTS. 



SECT. XV. 



of fuch weather, take up fome, and lay it by in dry earth 

 under {belter for life, 



Celleriac requires a rich foil, and mould have frequent 

 watering to have fine tender roots. Plant in trenches 

 about three inches deep, and earth up, [only once; 

 when the plants are about three parts grown, to four 

 inches height. 1 his fpecies is hardier than the others, 

 and holds longer in fpring ; therefore, thoie who like 

 the folid root fhould cultivate it. 



. The feed of celery, (in default of plants; if bruifed, 

 anfwers very well to give foup a flavour of it. Parjtey 

 feed, &c. may beufed in the fame way. 



Chardon is a gigantic vegetable of the artichoke 

 kind, (now feldom cultivated) ufed fometimes in fai lads t 

 but chiefly in /sups, or ftewed, &c. Sow about the 

 middle o£ March, and end ot April, in trenches, four 

 feet, or more, afunder, a toot wide, and fix inches 

 deep. Drop the feed (which will be near a month 

 coining up) a few inches afunder, and thin them at laft 

 to the diflance of from three to four feet. They muil 

 be watered in a dry time. Thofe plants that are drawn 

 .may be taken up with balls of earth about them, and 

 planted in trenched rows as celery, at the above diflance, 

 and the rows five feet from one another. The leaves 

 only of this plant are ufed, after they are blanched; 

 which is done by earthing two thirds of their length tip, 

 when about three or four feet high, tying neat hay- 

 bands firft clofe round them, to within a foot of the 

 top ; i. e. blanch when they are full grown, in Auguft 

 and September, and in about fix weeks they will be fit 

 for ufe. In thefe months it will be well to water them 

 regularly in dry weather, to prevent their feeding. In 

 froft cover the tops with ft raw : It will alTift the blanch- 

 ing to lay irraw, or offal hay, elofe round them when 

 tied. This plant is biennial here, but perennial in 

 its native climate, Spain, &c. 



Ckou de milan is of the boorcole kind, and pro- 

 pagated like it, but the plants fhould be put out at a yard 

 afunder. This is a very good winter green, and Bays 



longer 



