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... may be done with clay, even in respect of plants that clay is altogether nnfit for. In our own case we grow potatoes and asparagus of the finest quality on undrained clay by the comparatively inexpensive process of planting on ridges and u-ing lime rubbish ...
... difficulty to spoit it in the cooking, whereas green asparagus requires some little skill and watchfulness to send it to table in a creditable manner. There is just the same difference in cooking white asparagus as there is cooking a waxy potato, which neither ...
... frosts set in. Asparagus beds may now dressed with manure, wtech may slightly forked in. This is a good season for preparing ground for planting asparagus next spring. The soil cannot too deep and rich for asparagus. Not that asparagus requires % dung-heap ...
... RY. Asparagus and Sbaxale.—This is the best time the) »hole year to sow, and the best beds are raised from seed, without any transplanting. Tbe ground should have beea jrepared long since, and be now in a friable mellow tondition. Dress asparagus beds ...
... with four inches of soil, and take a iot of strong rootof asparagus, seakale, and rhubarb, and put them in pretty close together, and cover with leaves, and you wiil soon have supply. Asparagus should never be thoroughly blanched, but allowed to green ...
... Liebig Extract of Meat Company, Limited. It contains some 180 recipes, most of which will well repay trial. Starting with asparagus we find ox-tail soup, baked red mullett, mutton pilau, jugged bair, shepherd's pie' dressed vegetable marrow, parmesan omelette ...
... should be completely blanched; but Asparagus should have air and light when the shoots appear, as it is valueless unless the tops have two or three inches of green growth. Make plantations of rhubarb, seakale, asparagus and horseradish. Keep dung and all ...
... only need to bear in mind that a steady heat of to is all that is required to produce quick and good supplies of seakale, asparagus, and rhubarb. heap of leaves, or deep bed of tan, or a large body of stable manure that has been twice turned will afford ...
... roots of mint, and put in heat for salads and sauces. Continue to force rhubarb, seakale, and asparagus. Get cucumber and melon plants forward. Top-dress asparagus and seakale beds. Sow main crops of peas, broad beans, savoys, parsnips, on‘ons, cardoons, ...
... tbe latter. Cooking Asparagus.— At this season of the year all who not wish the delicate points of good asparagus to be destroyed the boiling should bear mind tbat they are never immersed water by those who understand cooking asparagus. The heads are aU ...
... LEAMINGTON. 5, PUR CENT. FOE PROMPT CASH. A NEW USE FOR SPENT TAN. At Argenteuil,.near Paris, the influence of spent tan upon asparagus beds has lately been tried with astonishing results. The earth was removed from some of the beds down to about inches from ...
... LEAMINGTON. 5, PER CENT. FOR PROMPT CASH. A NEW USE FOR SPENT TAN. At Argenteuil, near Paris, the influence of spent tan upon asparagus beds has lately been tried with astonishing results. The earth was removed from some of the beds down to about 2i inches ...