Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1900 : plants, bulbs tools fertilizers, sundries . cultivated for its flower-heads, which, when cooked in a young state, are are generally baked although there are many methods of cooking them. Culture.— The seeds should be sown in April or May and the plants, when large enough, transplantedinto rows four feet apait and two feet distant in the rows. They bear the second year and continue as long asthey are nourished and cultivated. They require protection during the winter ; the simplest means being to bankthem up like Celery, cutting away the very
Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1900 : plants, bulbs tools fertilizers, sundries . cultivated for its flower-heads, which, when cooked in a young state, are are generally baked although there are many methods of cooking them. Culture.— The seeds should be sown in April or May and the plants, when large enough, transplantedinto rows four feet apait and two feet distant in the rows. They bear the second year and continue as long asthey are nourished and cultivated. They require protection during the winter ; the simplest means being to bankthem up like Celery, cutting away the very tall tops and covering exposed foliage with any coarse mulch whichwill not readily rot. They may be fruited the first season if sown under glass in February and the seedlings transplanted in succeed best in a light, sandy loam, well-enriched. Pkt. Oz. Green Globe. The best variety; heads large, and scales tender and excellent ... .05 .30 Artichoke. {Helianthus tuberosus). Cultivated for its tubers. Qt., .20; peck, $ ASPARAGUS. (SpargeL). z J^r ,/ This is one of our most delicious vegetables, and when proper care is taken in making the beds and setting the plants, they will continue produc-tive for many years. Culture. The permanent bed should be trenched or ploughed very^jife^ deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly decayed manure. Wide^s/. drills should then be made three feet apart, and deep enough to admit of the Wfl^./Jj# top or tne plants being covered six inches. Plants, either one or two yearsWEa? old, may be purchased in spring, or may be produced from seed sown in[jHMP^ drills one inch deep and a foot apart. Set the plants eighteen inches apart^ in the rows, carefully spreading out and separating the roots. For the sake aW of convenience, one drill should be made at a time, and the planting and W^--, covering completed before another is commenced. In November, the plants %*r should have their annual top dressing of manure
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