The cultivated cardoon varies a good deal with regard to the division of the leaves, the number of spines, and the size--diversities which indicate long cultivation.
Although the indigenous species was to be found at such a little distance, I am very doubtful whether the ancient Egyptians cultivated the cardoon or the artichoke.
Modern nations cultivate thecardoon for the fleshy part of the leaves, a custom which is not yet introduced into Greece.
The cardoon is as high as a horse's back, but the Pampas thistle is often higher than the crown of the rider's head.
He states that botanists are now generally agreed that the cardoon and the artichoke are varieties of one plant.
As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
No doubt many plants, besides the cardoon and fennel, are naturalized; thus the islands near the mouth of the Parana, are thickly clothed with peach and orange trees, springing from seeds carried there by the waters of the river.
In November the Chimangos are seen incessantly beating over the cardoon bushes, after the manner of Hen-harriers; for at this season in the cardoons breeds the Synallaxis hudsoni.
After avoiding several blows aimed by the Chimango, it flew down and plunged into a cardoon bush.
In summer one hears its long melancholy trilling call-note from a cardoon bush, but if approached it drops to the ground and vanishes.
The Puvis Cardoon is remarkable for its strong growth, the large size it attains, and the thickness of the mid-ribs of the leaves, which are almost solid.
The best soil for the Cardoon is a light and deep but not over-rich loam.
It is raised from seed; which, as the plant is used in the first year of its growth and is liable to be injured by the winter, should be sown annually, although the Cardoon is really a perennial.
The milk is coagulated by an extract of thistle or cardoon flowers in two to six hours.
Other cheeses are made with vegetable rennet, some from similar thistle or cardoon juice, especially in Portugal.
Named from cardo, cardoon in English, a kind of thistle used as a vegetable rennet in making several other cheeses, such as French Caillebottes curdled with chardonnette, wild artichoke seed.
But the cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) has a far wider range: it occurs in these latitudes on both sides of the Cordillera, across the continent.
No doubt many plants, besides the cardoon and fennel, are naturalised; thus the islands near the mouth of the Parana are thickly clothed with peach and orange trees, springing from seeds carried there by the waters of the river.
Orbigny volume 1 page 474, says that the cardoon and artichoke are both found wild.
The cardoon is a thistle-like plant, very similar in appearance to the Globe artichoke, but is grown as an annual.
The cardoon should be planted in rows 3 feet apart and 18 inches apart in the row on rich soil, where it can secure plenty of moisture and make rapid growth.
Now the cardoon is the European artichoke run wild and its character somewhat altered in a different soil and climate.
Deer were common in our district in those days, and were partial to land overgrown with cardoon thistle, which in the absence of trees and thickets afforded them some sort of cover.
It was for me a tremendously long walk, as we had to take many a turn to avoid the patches of cardoon and giant thistles, and by and by we came to low ground where the grass was almost waist-high and full of flowers.
Their grey plumage being so much like the cardoon bushes in colour had prevented me from seeing them before I was right among them.
The land where the cardoon grows so abundantly is not good for sheep, and at Casa Antigua all the land was of this character.
I seldom rode to that side without getting a sight of a group of deer, often looking exceedingly conspicuous in their bright fawn colour as they stood gazing at the intruder amidst the wide waste of grey cardoon bushes.
Sometimes they breed on the open plain in a large cardoon thistle, but a thick bush or low tree is preferred.
The nest was in a cardoon bush, and contained five eggs--two of the Yellow-breast and three parasitical.
The nest is usually built in a cardoon thistle, two or three feet above the ground, and is made of dry grass.
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