T^he 7ra£tkal Kitchen Gafdmef. 



or, which is a reafon of fome moment^ 

 that the roots of the beet- chard being 

 fweeter and tenderer, may divert the 

 garden-mice from gnawing the roots of 

 the artichokes, which in winter-feafon^ 

 for want of better food, they are apt to 

 do. 



Thefe plants, as is before obfervedj, 

 fliould be removed once every three 

 years, cutting off all their out-leaves at 

 the beginning of every winter;^ but tak- 

 ing care the heart or infide be not da- 

 maged 5 and at the fame time laying fome 

 new long dung amongft them, letting a„ 

 little of the middle or ftock appear a- 

 bove ground 5 this is a pradice that 

 is common in all gentlemens gardens : 

 But thofe who have large gardens for 

 the market, and have not quantities of 

 long dung fufficient for their purpofcj, 

 only tie up their middles with little 

 bands of bafs-mats, having firft flipt and 

 prun'd them, as before, and cut off all 

 their out-leaves, then dig round them at 

 fome reafonable diftance, and, according 

 to the term ufed amongft gardiners, land 

 them up 5 which landing is generally 

 done in OBobery or the beginning of 

 November^ and the drier the earth is 



