The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



thod of planting them is too well known 

 for me to need to repeat or enlarge up- 

 on it j but it muft be noted that it ought 

 to be a good deep flrong foil, trench'd 

 in with dung and earth well mix'd to- 

 srethcr, and not fuch as lies in the wa- 

 ter, nor yet, if ponible, on a dry fand, 

 for then, without watering it confider- 

 ably, your heads will be always fmall. 



Artichokes, as moft other kitchen 

 vegetables do, affcft a frefh hearty deep 

 foil, before fuch is mended or made o- 

 \xr rank with dung, as I have experi- 

 enced in the fruitful potagery of Blen- 

 heimy where there was fome of the 

 largefl, fwcetcft, and bed artichokes 

 at their firft planting, that ever were feen 

 in England y at leaft that came to my 

 knowledge. 



The French plant them in beds of a- 

 bout four foot wide, and three foot 

 diilance from each other; but in Eng- 

 land we generally plant them at about 

 three foot afunder every way, and fo go 

 on each fide the rows, making no bed 

 at all, the reafon of which is, becaufe 

 they plant beet-chards between each row, 

 as requiring one and the fame culture 

 and care in prefcrving all the winter ^ 



