142 the amateur’s kitchen garden. 
pays best in good ground. Ours are grown on strong clay 
land, that has been well trenched during winter. On a poor 
soil we should use manure liberally ; but our heavy clay does 
not need any such aid, and we find our artichoke roots 
average in weight lib. each, which is considerably above the 
weight of fair samples in the market. The small roots are 
set aside for planting, and are generally planted in the later 
days of March, April, or early in May. They are put in 
rows two feet asunder, and the sets fifteen inches apart in the 
row. This is a more liberal allowance of space than they 
usually obtain : but they pay well for it, for while the aggre- 
gate crop is heavy, a majority of the roots are large, and it is 
a fact of some importance that Jerusalem Artichokes cannot 
be too large, owing to the inevitable waste that occurs in 
preparing them for cooking. We measured some of our stems 
in the year 1875, and found the shortest to be eight feet, 
and the tallest fifteen feet, and nine-tenths of them flowered. 
REIiDLES FRUIT WALL PROTECTOR. 
