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the latter end of the year, thofe fets be- 

 ing, as is before hinted, to be puU'd up 

 * and thrown away after they have pro- 

 duc'd their heads. A method obfcrv'd 

 by few gentlemens gardiners that I know 

 of, tho' much by the market-gardiners 

 about London, 



As foon as the fruit of thefe (as well 

 as the others) begin to appear, they muft 

 be watered plentifully, efpecially if it 

 be a dry foil, and a dry feafon, laying 

 grafs-muck, or any other long fluff or 

 dung, to the roots, to keep them moift, 

 for herein depends the largenefs and 

 goodnefs that is to be expeded in a good 

 artichoke > tho* this is a method not to 

 be taken in large gardens, as before j 

 for in the marfhes, their ground being 

 moift, the fun exhales that moifture in 

 fuch a manner as to fave all waterings, 

 at leaft any great ones, after they arc once 

 planted and rooted. 



The plants (as I faid before) being to 

 be puU'd up and thrown away as food as 

 the heads are ufed, there needs no fur- 

 ther rules for the culture; and if they 

 fiiould be prefervedp enough is fet down 

 on this head. 



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