... ?? to say nothing of three full-page chromos, detached from the letterpress. ENGLISH ASPARAGUS IN MID-WINTER. A CHAT WITH A COVENT GARDEN SALESMAN. English asparagus in mid-winter ! It is hardly conceivable, but is neverthe- less a fact. Mr. E. A. Hubbard ...

... Deschamps. ahas added asparagus to. this long list. He has published a full clinical report of a victualler over forty years of age, who suffers from severe spasmodic attacks of coughing whenever he attempts to prepare raw asparagus for the cook. He is ...

... the rule to make asparagus beds-thatr is, in the form in which they were known to past days, and even still furnish many examples. Probably no more elaborate nonsense was ever written about the cultivation of any plant tihan of asparagus, for writers held ...

... RITS FOR T KITCHE i Asparagus is now at its best. Always serve it piping kot. t is never well to boil it too mueh, from ten to fifteen minutes being about the stipulated time. If very thick, it takes longer. If it is allowed to remain in the water after ...

... paper gives some seasonable information with regard to- asparagus. This vegetable grows wild in France, and may even now be gathered in the Bois de Vincennes and other French forests. The wilcl- asparagus is long, thin, and green all through, and has a slightly ...

... millionaire to eat a hundred bundles of early asparagus and a hundred early ducklings at a meal. The other danger is of spoiling the whole market. If the hundred well-to-do men can all have March asparagus and May ducklings the I/ite may decide for simplicity ...

... when in a large garden with the admirable foresight -shown by the gardeuer -in -the matter of obtaining a regular supply of asparagus, a vegetable that may, perbhps, -be sorerwb ltbo scarce and costly for general consumption, but -which :i, in good oil, an ...

... should be care- fully weeded. If two plants arise from the same hole, the weaker of the two should be reuseved. Sometimes asparagus is suffered to remain in the bed where it has been sown, and at other times it is tranepLhnted. This operation is performed ...

... Those who sow seeds should do so in about a week's time. Sow them in drill-rows thinly. Finish packing up or picking over Asparagus beds in instanesv where delayed so lng, otherwise the crop 'will form and push through cr0r the operation he completed.': ...

... generation to generation. ASPARAGUS being by no means a cheap dainty for Londoners, lovers of this vegetable may well envy the cows in the Duchy of Brunswick. Owing to the crop being enormous this year in the Duchy, asparagus will not fetch even a halfpenny ...

... hardy nature, when in re- quest in the earliest season, requirealso the assistance of hotbeds, such as salading, radishes, asparagus, kidney beans, peas, &c, now proceed to procure necessary sup- plies of hot dung, composts, and other requisites. And for ...

... these we may mention asparagus The moet reedy way of forming the beds for this always dear vegetable is to plant onesyear old sorts; but the cheapest way is to sow the seed-only you have a year longer to wait. The soil in which asparagus Is to be grown well ...