... ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. A lady in Cheshire sends me a fine spray of this beautiful asparagus. It is one of the Asparagus Ferns, so called by many, and this variety is tbe best of them all. It is very free in growth. The fronds or sprays grow to a length ...

... FORCING ASPARAGUS There are few forced vegetables more valued in the winter time than Asparagus. It may be had from the middle of November until it comes in naturally out of doors. We have always found roots to force best when they are three or four years ...

... -sized, crisp, sweet Asparagus, 'here are thousands of your readers who could give a little manure to a row of Asparagus in autumn, and more manure by a sprinkling of salt in summer, who never cedd take the trouble of making an Asparagus bed in the old- fashioned ...

... fond oi Asparagus as a vegetable, that was the portion of the garden which attracted him, and as it was on French-grown Asparagus that Mr. Robinson had so very much to say, and said it so well, it went home, and be raved abont French Asparagus and French ...

... HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS. There bo doabt of the inporUnee mad value vegetable, bat in some soils there is, perhaps, no crop more difficult establish satisfactorily. In some places it succeeds remarkably well, grows vigorously, and lasts in good condition ...

... SIMPLE ASPARAGUS CULTURE One of the errors in Asparagus culture is crowding the plants closely together in the bed. A deep excavation is made, which is filled with rich materials, and the cultivator, in order to get the most of the narrow space which ...

... FORCING ASPARAGUS IN BEDS The practice of forcing Asparagus in perm__» ent beds (writes J. C. C, in The Garden) has never been adopted so mnch as the merits of the system deserve. It is certainly a more economical plan than that of lifting the roots and ...

... IMPROVEMENTS IN ASPARAGUS CULTURE. We hope the prises offered by Mr. William Robinson, of The Garden, will inaugurate a new era in Asparagus Culture in this country, not that the plant has been neglected hitherto or ill cultivated, but because better ...

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... GROWING OUR OWN ASPARAGUS. Quite a revolution being carried oat in the produel ion of early asparagus English market garden growers this season Hitherto the trade has depended solely upon the ’Taris exporting firms for its supply this dainty during the ...

... ASPARAGUS, V. PER TIN. • NOVELTY? ...

... ASPARAGUS : HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT IT This vegetable although indigenous to this country aud to many of the temperate aud colder countries of the earth, has been cultivated for centuries. The Romans , iv the time of Pliny, had attained great perfection ...