JER 
LET 
once planting to have a crop of good 
sticks always at hand. It is true every 
little bit will grow, but if it is required 
good it must be cultivated as well as 
any other occupant of the garden. The 
bed may be made large enough to afford a 
supply for two years, after arriving at 
maturity, and then a fresh bed need only 
be made every alternate season ; but it 
should not be left longer. 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. Re¬ 
liant kus tuberosus (De Candolle.) Nat. 
Ord. Composite. Though called the Jeru- 
salem Artichoke, this plant is a native of 
Brazil, and with us forms one of the har¬ 
diest and most productive vegetables we 
possess. The tubers should be planted in 
March, on almost any soil, and they do 
not refuse to grow even under the drip 
of trees. The manner of planting is like 
that usual with potatoes; the tubers, or 
pieces of them, should be placed in drills, 
about eighteen inches apart, and a foot 
one from another in the rows, and if 
they are hoed up in the same way, it 
will render the roots better flavoured. 
When the tall stems begin to wither in 
the autumn, they should be cut off, and, 
by laying them over the ground, the 
frosts that may occur will be prevented 
from entering until a supply of roots can 
be got up. The roots are, however, by 
no means tender, and the precaution is 
only for convenience in their removal. 
It is decidedly preferable to take some 
pains in getting them clean out of the 
ground, than to leave them to form an 
irregular crop in the next season; and 
if they are annually planted in rows, and 
not permitted to grow otherwise, their 
removal in a proper manner'will occa¬ 
sion but little trouble. This artichoke 
is recommended as one of the very best 
substitutes for the potato, and in game 
preserves is extensively grown as a fa¬ 
vourite food for pheasants in the winter. 
LAMB’S LETTUCE. Valerianellci 
olitoria (De Candolle.) Nat. Ord. Va- 
lerianea. A kind of hardy salad. It 
should be sown in March and September, 
on a moist, rather shaded border, and 
the leaves gathered as they are required. 
LEEK. Allium Porrurn (Linn.) 
Nat. Ord. Liliacece. The seed of this 
well-known vegetable should be sown 
early in March on a warm border, scat¬ 
tering it rather thinly in the broadcast 
manner; and as soon as the young 
plants are about four inches high, they 
should be transplanted. The ground 
intended to receive them should be 
thrown into trenches about a foot deep, 
placing a good layer of rotten dung in 
the bottom of each ; and after turning 
this in, the Leeks may be planted six 
inches from each other, and as they 
grow the trenches should be filled, which 
bleaches the plants, and renders them 
tender and succulent, besides guarding 
them from excessive frost in winter. 
Successional plantations may be made 
from the same seed bed, where they are 
required, by drawing only the largest 
each time, and the latest will be found a 
useful help to the onions in spring. 
There are but few varieties of the Leek, 
those usually grown are the London 
Flag and the Scotch Flag; the latter is 
the largest, but is not generally so well 
flavoured as the smaller variety. 
LEMON. See Orange. 
LETTUCE. Lactuca saliva (De 
Candolle.) Nat. Ord. Composite. 
The numerous varieties of the garden 
Lettuce are all highly esteemed as 
salads, and some of them for stewing, in 
which form they are a very desirable 
addition to the stock of winter and 
spring vegetables. To keep a constant 
succession of good Lettuces, requires 
some management and the assistance of 
plenty of frames. The seed will require 
to be sown at intervals of about a fort¬ 
night through the whole of the spring 
and summer months, beginning about 
the end of January. Through this and 
the next month it will be necessary to 
sow it in artificial heat, either in pans 
placed in a Cucumber bed or some such 
situation, and afterwards inuring the- 
plants to a lower temperature, never 
neglecting to sprinkle a little seed 
wherever there is a chance of its vege¬ 
tating ; as, for instance, on newly- 
planted potato or carrot beds, as no 
interruption need be feared to the pro- 
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