... favourite poet Crabbe or OVERHEARD AT A RESTAURANT.—Diner : * Tt seems to me, waiter, that they have cut all the heads off this asparagus.”—Waiter (with gushing candour): *‘No, sir, no; but when hnptugu- ’as been two years in the tin, it’s hapt to lose its ‘eads ...

... servedin this way requires no sugar for dressing, and is a wholesome breakfast du.hmgn‘ chil- To Dress Asparacus.—Serape the asparagus, and, after washing them in cold water, bind them in small bundles, placing the green heads together, and cut them off even ...

... in—that is, For the subsequent planting—and earthing them up, when the Dutch hoe is run among them. SAUTING AsPARAGUS BEDS,—Those who possess asparagus beds will do well to give them a dressing of salt now. This will greatly improve the quality of the ‘““grass ...

... out of the hearts of the plants ; dust dry lime amongst them, and tie lightly with matting to keep the stems upright.—T. Asparagus ground should now be dressed with manure. On wet, low-lying land, though, it may be as well, during winter only, to place ...

... ourselves we are year after year letting the foreiguer send us. Carrots, broceoli, caulifiowers, radishes, lettuces, tomatoes, asparagus, &c., come largely from France and other countries, It is true they mostly come at a time when our English season bas hardly ...

... pulpit decorations consisted of wreaths of wheat, oats, and barley, mixed with different kinds of berries, and sprays of asparagus covered with its bright coloured seeds, and at the base were variegated plants and vegetable marrows, the lectern being covered ...

... me have a small gl.?. of oxtail soup, with a follow o: roast sirloin of beef (underdone and without horse-radish), with asparagus and sauté potatoes.”—Waiter (in stentorian voice to man at lpuki::-tubo across the room) : “‘ Small ox, foller of beef under ...

... potatoes. Peg down the shoots of vegetable marrows to the soil to induce them to root. Apply a light dressiog of salt over asparagus beds, MusarooMs,—Manure eollected into a heap should ‘be well turned over, shaking both damp straw and dung thoroughly together ...

... with the delicate limbs of the tender spring chicken, and mancurving dexterously with the slender stalks of the eucculent asparagus. But, after all, the line must be drawn somewhere, and in the case of the poor paupers of the Chester Workhouse, where the ...

... potato would naturally represent the Irish, the fiery beet-root would serve fog the warlike Boulangists, the aristocratic asparagus mfiho do for the Cowtesse de Paris's elegint friends, while there is such a lot about eating in Lord Beaconsficld’s novels ...

... VEGRTABLES.—Where a mild heat for forcing vegetables can be maintaived, many kinds may now be had easily and in abundance. Asparagus roots, if placed in frames on a gentle hotbed, and the lights closed early in the day, will grow rapidly. Rhubarb, seakale ...

... fetch more than their weight in gold. The eye of poverty sees in the fruiterers’ windows strawberries at sixpence apiece and asparagus at a shilling a head, and the dry crust of poverty becomes the bread of discontent. Wealth, mot all unmindful of its duties ...