The English Gardener Author:William Cobbett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Kitchen-garden Plants, arranged in Alphabetical order, with Directions relative to the Propagation and Cultivation of each sort. 119. The plants... more » which are cultivated in the kitchen-garden are either such as are for food, or for medicinal purposes. The former are generally called vegetables, and the latter herbs ; and then there are pot-herbs and medicinal herbs, which, altogether, forms a strange jumble and inconsistency; everything being vegetable that grows out of the earth, from a blade of grass to an oak-tree. The best and most consistent way, therefore, is to give the name of Kitchen-garden plants to all the things grown in the kitchen- garden, except fruits, which will have a distinct Chapter allotted to themselves. The alphabetical order is also the best, because each article is referred to with so much convenience. The reader will please to bear in mind what has been said in the foregoing Chapter with regard to propagation and cultivation in general; that Chapter being written for the express purpose of preventing the necessity of repeating, under every particular article, directions for selecting the sorts, for saving and preserving the seed, for sowing, for transplanting, and for after cultivation. The rules there laid down are applicable to all kitchen-garden plants ; some additional rules given in this Chapter will apply to each plant respectively. After this preface, 1 begin the list of kitchen-garden plants in the manner before described. 120. ARTICHOKE.—This plant is propagated either from seed or from offsets. If from the former, sow the seed in rows a foot apart, in the month of March; thin the plants to a foot apart as soon as they are an inch high; keep them cleanly weeded, and the ground moved, now-and-then, during the summer ; and, in the a...« less