8 'S The Englijh Gardner. 
too much trouble or coft,then you may open the ground a lit¬ 
tle about every flock or root, and lay in fome dung round 
about, and then rite up the mold about it, and take notice 
that the more light or ftrawie your dung is, the better it pre¬ 
serves your ftocks from the Froft, although the other affords, 
moft vertue and nourilhment in the growing time of the year; 
or you may do thus 5 firft dig your Hartichoak-plot all over, 
and cut off all the flagging leaves both on the tops and fides, 
and then lay a coat of dung all over amongft your Harti- 
choaks, efpecially about each frock, and fo let it reft until 
the Spring, and then in the month of March^ if they are 
any thing well recovered, or in April, you are to dig over 
your plot, keeping a good open trench before you 3 and 
when you come to a frock, to open the ground pretty deep 
about it, even fo low as you may with your thumb thruft 
or force off all the flips from your frock, excepting two or 
three of the ftrongeft, except you find them to be too for¬ 
ward for fruit 3 infuch a cafe one more weak or backward 
is better to be left, and then with the back ofyour knife to 
rub or force off all the young buds for flips, that fo all the 
oourifhment of the Root may be imploy’d on your principal 
bearers, and then cut off the flagging leaves, and put in the 
mold, doling ip well to your Plants or frock, and fo conti¬ 
nue your digging and flipping until you have finifhed 5 and 
in cafe any be dead or not thriving amongft your Stock, then 
you may let a young Plant in its place, and if it fo happen, 
as fometimes it doth, that by reafon of a very hard or {harp 
Winter your Hartichoak ftocks are fo weak, that there is no 
medling with them as to flipping, then you may begin • be¬ 
times, and fow a crop of either Parfhips, Carrots, or of Sal- 
leting, and when occafion requires, give your crop as fpee- 
dy Husbandry and good diftance as you may conveniently, 
that when your Hartichoaks begin to thrive, they may have 
all the advantage that may be 3 find then with a thin flice or 
fo mething near to that fhape, pretty narrow , without dig- 
ing 3 force for_ <?ut off all the under-flips* maintaining only 
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