... ASPARAGUS. It la now imperative to cut down the brown grua, and to give the bed top d rearing of conrae manure. In spring, prick over the ground with fork, working lightly only, to not to cause injury to the mots. A spring dressing of two laches of good ...

... ASPARAGUS. If ealy mail plantation bo deeired, it 1* and more eon van lent to farm it with plante, which may now bo put in It inehce opart in town like diatoneo oaunder. Spread oat the roote of each flatwiee all round, eever with Mil until the eeed ie ...

... root.. hrst gathering can be made some month or so after planting. Rants are forced where growing in beds recommended for asparagus. ...

... linen The plnnt succeeds anywhere, and en it specially netful tor hlliog odd eornera, which would not otherwise be cropped. ASPARAGUS. Keep the bede free from weeds, and prepare fresh ground (or sowing iu April. Deep, rich, sandy, well dreeeed, and thoroughly ...

... food. The Iwst pl»u of arranging a rotation is to roogbly map out the grou td into four portions, devoting one portion to asparagus, rhubarb, sea kale, an*i other plants occupying the ground for seveial sea sons. A second plot is cropped with potatoes, ...

... authority roses—says that when the great red shoot pushes up through tbe soil, plump and gross and brittle like head of asparagus, lift it and handle it gently* treat him though yon loved him,’ Isaac Walton said of the worm to be threaded on tbe hook—try ...

... leaf mould, but the colour of asparagus is a matter of individual taste. An occasional sprinkling ot salt, soot, and guano, to be followed by a heavy soaking of water, will be found beneficial during dry weather. The asparagus beetle sometimes cau-es serious ...

... the flowers open. These shoots are produced in succession for a long period, and are used like asparagus. Hence the plant has received the name of asparagus broccoli, though it i much more generally known as broccoli sprouts. The culture is of the most ...

... beef, boiled nmttoo and caper aanee, roaal chickens, and boiled bam. Vegetables Now potatoes, baked do., and mashed do., asparagus, cauliflowers, a id carrots. Gooseberry, plain, and red cnrrant tarts, custards, iSce., &e. Desert: Pine apples, oranges ...

... end with initials. In these cases it is obviously impossible reply.—E.K T. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. FORCING ASPARAGUS. Bneeessiooal sap dies of asparagus roots may ba removed from cool sued or cellar where they are stored, and packed evenly and closely two ...

... sowings cannot be expected to do so well as those prosperous ones which were made at a more favourable season. Thin out asparagus seedlings as they become five or six inches high, and plant the surplus, if required, in good soil, to he transplanted the ...

... GENERAL. It is most important to repair all losses, and to get in seeds that should have been sown ear lier. ASPARAGUS. Thin out asparagus seedlings when they are about five or six inches high, leaving only one to each position, and planting the surplus ...