... ASPARAGUS. . The Roots.—The magnitude of the yield depends directly on the strength of the roots forced, so that four, five, or six-year-old clumps must be employed. Dug late in autumn, with the least possible injury to their roots, those intended for ...

... SCARLET, best for general crop NEAL'S NE PLUS ULTRA, tea to fourteen inches long OIRTFORDS GIANT RUN NER RIVF,NHALL GIANT Asparagus. Bow in March and April. GRAYSON'S GIANT CONOVER'S COLOSSAL Beet. One sowing of this is generallyistifilcient, which may ...

... mode of propagation is from seeds. though the old root*, whlch may be described es a sort of hybrid between lilies arid Asparagus, may be divided into almost se many pieces as there are stems; the latter, however, are bard and wiry, and do not root freely ...

... beauty perish, or are spoilt or marred in the using? What piles of the chicoest Maidenhair, Hareafoot, or other Ferns, plumed Asparagus, Glaucous Lycopods, and other greenery, have we felt to melt and wither in our hands, and seen robbed of their freshness ...

... Sundries Shallots per lb. Garlic : Potato Onions l9 8d Asparagus Roots per 100 21- to 3,6 Globe Artichokes 6/- & 91- dos Sea Kale per dos 1/6 to 31- Silver Sand per bushel 3 6 Peat 3/- Jerusalem Artichokes, peck 1/6 Gishurst Compound. per box 11- and ...

... PROCURED TO ORDER. A FINE COLLECTION OF OTHER HYBRID PERPETUAL AND ROSES, IN STANDARDS AND DWARFS. RHUBARB, SEA KALE, AND ASPARAGUS PLANTS ON HAND. STRAWBERRY PLANTS, ALL THE BEST VARIETIES, AT PER HUNDRED. Gardens Contracted for by the Year. OUT TIERS: ...

... Kale. Per ounce d Sow from March to May, and transplant from June till Angust, 2 feet apart—For Culture, see Cabbage tribe. ASPARAGUS SALE, an excellent hardy kind, very lender anddelicious . . . 0 6 COTTA.GER'S KALE, very 'hardy and pro ductive ...

... aid of a notable proportion of lime in the soil, he said it was impossible to grow fine asparagus. He condemned the prevailing practice of cutting sprue asparagus as most unjust to the plant, and as affording a sufficient explanation of the poor quality ...

... i'ilt.&(0117011 TOOQOOD AND BONO, ROYAL Szu Brusszia- MINT, Elornwirros. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. Forcing Asparagus.—ratocesmonal supplies of asparagus roots mil be removed from the cool shed or cellar when they are awed, and packed evenly and closely on ...

... suitable food. The best plea of arranging a rotation is to roughly map out the ground into four portions, devoting one porn to asparagus, rhubarb. sea-kale, and other plants occnpving the ground for several seasons. A second plot is cropped with potatoes, onions ...

... vegetables divide in the process of gemination, forming two lobes or seed leaves (dicotyledons), the Onion tribe and the Asparagus being exceptions. Even these are usually too much crowded in wed beds and lines, the others nearly always. The two seal leaves ...

... Where'd von sleep ? First tramp: I had a bad night. Slept a bed. Second tramp : Feather bed ? irst tramp : No, asparagus bed. Say, let's go into business together. Second tramp : What kind of business ? First train° • Fanny business. HOW ...