in connection with the Potato than with aught else, and this valuable root should, if possible, be grown on a different plot every year, so that it shall be three or four years in travelling round the garden.  Lastly, sow everything in drills at the proper distances apart.  Broadcasting is a slovenly mode of sowing, and necessitates slovenly cultivation afterwards.  When crops are in drills they can be efficiently thinned, weeded and hoed—­in other words, they can be cultivated.  But broadcasting pretty well excludes the cultivator from the land, and can only be commended to the idle man, who will be content with half a crop of poor quality, while the land may be capable of producing a crop at once the heaviest and the best.

==Globe Artichoke==

==Cynara Scolymus==

The Globe Artichoke is grown mainly for the sake of its flower-heads which make a delightful dish when cooked while immature.  The plant is easily raised from seed, although not quite hardy in some districts.  It will grow on almost any soil, but for the production of large fleshy heads, deep rich ground is requisite.  The preparation of the soil should be liberal, and apart from the use of animal manure the plant may be greatly aided by wood-ashes and seaweed, for it is partial to saline manures, its home being the sandy seashores of Northern Africa.

The simplest routine of cultivation consists in sowing annually, and allowing each plantation to stand to the close of the second season.  Seed may be sown in February in boxes of light soil, or in the open ground in March or April.  In the former case, put in the seeds one inch deep and four inches apart, and start them in gentle heat.  Grow on the seedlings steadily, and thoroughly harden off preparatory to planting out at the end of April, giving each a space of three to four feet apart each way.  Under favourable conditions the plants from the February sowing will produce heads in the following August, September, and October.  In the second year, the heads will be formed during June and July.  This arrangement not only insures a supply of heads from June to October, but admits of a more effective rotation of crops in the garden.

Sowings in the open ground should be made in March or April, in drills one foot apart.  Thin out the plants to six inches apart in the rows and allow them to stand until the following spring, when they may be transplanted to permanent beds.

Globe Artichokes may also be grown from suckers planted out in April when about nine inches high.  Put them in rather deep, tread in firmly, and lay on any rough mulch that may be handy.  Should the weather be dry they will require watering, and during a hot dry spell water and liquid manure should be given freely to insure a good supply of large heads.  Seedlings that are started well in a suitable bed take better care of themselves than do plants from suckers, especially in a dry season.  Vigorous seedlings send down their roots to a great depth.