tS^ The TraSfical Kitchen Gardiner. 



at the time of landing, the better, for 

 fear it fliould rot the heart of the 

 choke. 



About March is the time for unco- 

 vering and flipping them as before, if 

 big enough, if not, you are to defer it 

 fome time longer, taking off all that 

 ftraw and litter that is on, before it be 

 as it \v€;i:e converted to dung, and dig 

 it into the ground, but not deep, only 

 juft fpittle it in, as gardiners generally 

 term it. And this is the method for 

 old flocks. 



0/ thi fe- The feeond crop of artichokes (which 



«r//V/2'/'^^^^^^^^^^ laft from the beginning or 

 nr tc s, j^^- ^^j^^ ^jig^ji latter end of 



OEiober^ and fometimes, in a mild year, 

 part of November) are of the out fets 

 from the old flocks before-mentioned, 

 where having a good many you chufe 

 out only the flrongefl, for fome of the 

 fmall ones will not head till the year 

 following 5 but all thofe that I am now 

 treating of are planted promifcuoufly 

 in any vacant part of the garden, where 

 the fummer crops are drawn off, from 

 the middle of March to the latter end 

 of May fucceflively, that they may fuc- 

 ceed each other in the fame manner at 



the 



