... DISEASED ASPARAGUS. Lovers of asparagus must be prepared for bad news about their favourite vegetable. A disease even more fatal than that which attacks vines and potatoes has suddenly declared itself. Thaifol- lowing are the facts as stated to us by ...

... PRIZES FOR ASPARAGUS. Witha view to improve and extend the culture of asparagus throughout the United Kingdom,. it is pro- posed to give a series of annual prizes, extending over a period of seven years. These prizes will be given in London, Edinburgh ...

... for breakfast. In any case, if the asparagus is to be enjoyed in perfection it must be fresh. Its ?? may be known by the stiffness of the heads. If the heads droop and are ?? the-asparagus-is staie. To boil Asparagus, scrape the stalks near the roots, ...

... . Green asparagus takes less time than purple asparagus. When done the asparagus should be well drained and served on a I:T slice of toast cut to its own size. Send oiled butter, £ Dutch sauce, or eg sauce to table separately. or Asparagus served atonle ...

... GARDENING FOR NOVEMBER. ASPARAGUS, a Amongst the choicest vegetable productions of the a kitchen garden asparagus certainly occupies a foremost a place, buit, somehow, its cultivation has mostly been I confined, in this country at least, until recant ...

... green pods and seeds from the same plante Take up onions, shallots, and garlic as they ripen, and store for winter. Give asparagus beds plenty of liquid manure vhere available. and use the grass-mowings from the lawn as mulchings to prevent the soil from ...

... ba0m 5, into. ASPARAGUS COULTIVATION AT AlRGENTElUIL. A correspondent of the Timcs gives sr. ascoant of asparas gus oultivation at Argehtenil, a few miles from Pari5. He to says :-Io planting asparagus it Is oonsidered desirable pE that bhe ground ahonld ...

... the stalks. Similar remarks apply to asparagus. Seakals not intended to he lifted for forcing may be covered with about half an inch of ashes, and if a sprinkling of salt-about half the quantity given to asparagus prior to potting on the ashes-is given ...

... means are most useful when asparagus is not required very early. Few Lardens can boast of such meaus, but must have recourse to a mere simple method-viz., lifting and bringing it into an old dung pit. That really good asparagus is produced. by such means ...

... the very small Asparagus is quite good enough. But it a-must not be simply 'bodled, and served with be incited butter or Oiled butter in the ordinry a -y, but it must be well-cooked in such a way ofas the following: -Boil the asparagus in the ag usual ...

... faucy-now otlen carried into effect-is teat of serving the asparagus warm and the sauce cold, or rice versm, ice being frequently used to enhance the cold of sauce or I vegetable, as may be. Asparagus, if'served with- oet accompaniment of meat and gravy, is ...

... their normal and definite size. ASPARAGUS This crop is a good one in 1897, both quantity and quality being satisfactory. The old raised beds of asparagus are being discarded. K The habit is of the remotest antiquity, asparagus having been grown by the Romans ...