... locality. It is getting on towards spring. In CoVent (Jardetl a few pale and edl-ly potatoes llave shown them selves, and even asparagus of a feebie growth has struggled into existence. It is the time of pairing amongst birds and humans most especially female ...

... Potatoes look healthy, despite the wet weeks since Easter in the kitchen garden, spinach has yielded well, but the crop of asparagus in ordinary beds is below the mark. The various sorts of currant bushes, as well as the raspberry cane, show only medium ...

... Granted it is eatable, yet it is no more com parable with pigeon pie than a rank swede turnip is with the most delicate asparagus. We feel sure that if rook pie, pigeon pie, and other pies were placed on a luncheon board before a party of professed admirers ...

... considered to occupy about the same position to the music as is held gastronomically by the humble round of toast towards the asparagus served up upon it. Indeed, a well-authenticated anecdote respecting an equally well-known Anglo-Hibernian singer would seem ...