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... MISCELLANEA Salting Asparagus Beds.—This year T followed as closely as possible the directions given in your paper some time ago for renewing apparently worn out Asparagus beds. My beds are situated on limestone land, but the soil is deep and rich. The ...

agriculture, J^oxuultnvt, &c~

... vanced, the asparagus forms an exception, for if it is good and well grown, it is dear even when in full season. The temperature of Vie una bein^ cold for a long period of the year, the gardeners employ a very ingenious method of preserving asparagus from frosts ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

that death had resulted not from refusal to take food, but from excitement and utter prostration of the system. ..

... of horticulture, and cut the asparagus like a Dutchman. Moreover, Swift had told Mrs. Dingley that the King ate the white part of the asparagus as well as the head : and from that time forth, Mrs. Dingley never saw asparagus at table without repeating the ...

Agriculture, jfloncuinter, &c

... Agriculture, jfloncu inter, &c OPr.IiATI'>NS OF THE WEEK Kitchen Gahdi.n — All the shoots first p;in- duced on the asparagus beds should be cut, Lot s nail and huge, leaving none to -hoot out it t ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1850
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN ST. JOHN'S MARKET, JUNE 22. 6. d. s. d. Beef 0 5 to 0 7 Mutton

... 0 0 0 0 Filberts Fresh Butter Salt Ditto 0 8 0 10 Eggs ' 1205 2 0 0 Potatoes, Peck' 1 3 -- 1 5 New Ditto, lb 0 13— 0 23 Asparagus, 1 3 Q Q s. d. s. d. Grapes For. lb 0 8 to 0 0 Pines, For. each. 0 0 0 0 Do. Eng. lb. 5 0- 0 0 Fowls, couple. 2 9 3 6 Ducks ...

PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN ST. JOHN'S MARKET, FEB. 23. s. d. s. d. I a . d. a. d. Beef

... 0 0 Salt Ditto 7 0 10 Plovers Eggs *l2O 6 4 0 0 Wild Ducks . 0 0— 0 0 Potatoes, Peck 010 1 2 Woodcocks . 0 0— 0 0 Asparagus, *ioo 3 6 0 0 Larks .*doz. 0 0— 0 0 LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24. Direct. Indirect. Direct , Indirect. Australia ...

LANCASTER FLORAL AND HORTICUL-.TURAL SOCIETY

... Hamilton; 2, Potatoes, Mrs. Gaw- thorpe. 1, Cucumbers, 8. Simpson, Baas 2, Cu- cumbers, J, Giles, Esq. 1, Asparagus, W. Ford, fcsq.; 2. Asparagus, S. Simpson, Esq.; 3, As- paragus, J. Binns, Esq. ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1850
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 934 | Page: 5 | Tags: none