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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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mental plant; well it may be, for there are few finer ob¬ 
jects in early autumn than a large plant of it. Thoreau 
—we think it was—described its rich ripeness in deserved 
terms. We should cultivate it, aud nurse it, did it come 
from Japan aud cost $5 a root, and no garden would be 
complete without it. But it is not in the ornamental 
garden that we would now speak of Poke—to use its 
shortest name. Whoever has not eaten the tender, just 
developing shoots of this, dressed as asparagus, or as 
spinach, his missed one of the choicest of vegetables. 
It is sometimes compared to asparagus, but it is not like 
that—it is a thing by itself, and as good in its way as is 
asparagus in its. Knowing from early youth the great 
excellence of—must we say it—“ Pigeon-berry greens,” 
It has long been in the writer's mind to sometime try 
what cultivation would do for it. Iu this, as in other 
cases, “sometime is no time at all,” and the only true 
way is to carry out such intentions at once. As to the 
“ poke,” we have been anticipated. The idea is ours, 
but some one else has put it in practice, and that some 
one else is—a lady. We have only imagined how excel¬ 
lent improved Poke must be, but our Illinois correspond¬ 
ent has the advantage of us—she knows it. The lady trans¬ 
planted young seedlings all along her garden fence ; she 
also had large roots dug up and set out. From these last 
she says: “ We have had the finest, fattest , Poke-berry 
greens ever eaten.” In answer to our suggestion that the 
tops, when mature, would occupy too much room, she 
writes, that when the plants get well tip she has them 
cut off at 3 or 4 feet, and that this leaves foliage enough 
to mature the root. Those unacquainted with the use of 
this plant, should understand that only the young shoots 
are used; these, when they first appear above ground, are 
as large as ones finger or larger when 6 inches or more 
high, and before the leaves have developed. While be¬ 
ing placed in rich garden soil will greatly increase the 
size and tenderness of these shoots, the great advantage 
gained is, being able to cut them when wanted, aud not 
being obliged to hunt for them in the wild state. 
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OF YOUR CROPS BY USING 
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Which fit all drill boots, cut fiat bottom furrows, cover with 
moist, mellow soil (rather than dry surface earth), and, in¬ 
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the rows, spread it three and four inches, thus allowing the 
plant ROOM TO STOOL, so conducive to its subsequent 
growth and proper development. 
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