... plate, and each piece taken (p delicately with the lin- gers, aud so conveyed to the mouth. Fingers should also be used l' asparagus, artichokes, fruit, olives, ra,diaha tartlets, and even small fried fish. And ladis, are assured that if they could only ...

... p a mushroom house, asparagus, carrot, cucumbers, musu rooms, mint, potatoes, radishes, rhubarb,, and pea'CHie. ASPARAGUS AND SEAKALE.-This is the best tinwiro the whole year to sow, where new beds are rec^l^afiy Dress asparagus beds with manure,, and ...

... GARDEN WORK FOR THE WEEK. I Asparagus and seakale for the first supply to be started at once. All that is wanted is a mild sweet bottom heat. A melon or cucumber bed still retaining some warmth may be revived by turning it over, and mixing with the dung ...

... Rhubarb is also slightly cheaper. Green peas are sold in the pods at a shilling tho pound. Fair-sized bundles of small asparagus cost fiffceetipence. French beans are a little cheaper, and mushrooms axe very cheap. For green vegetables prices are very ...

... a veil of Brussels net over orange blossoms, and she carried a, shower bouquet of white carnations, orange blossoms, and asparagus fern. The bridemaids were attired in cream figured alpaca with white straw hats trimmed with cream roses and plumes. There ...

... greenstnffs* all of which are searco and dear. Spinach is excellent. TbAr4 is a good supply ot ripe tomatoes at moderate prices. Asparagus is still expensive, but new potatoes are- now retailed in West-end shops 4d, per lb. English, beans fetch better prices, ...

... to be. The sup. plies are fairly good, the weather having been so open. French beans are retailed at lOd the pound, and asparagus from 2s the bundle. Cauliflowers are good, but higher in price than they were. There has been a good consignment of Fresh ...

... rise in price in all the best kinds of fish, partly owing to the stormy and unsettled weather, which made supplies short. Asparagus is growing cheap, and peas are coming in so well that they are now retailed at 8d thd pound. Jersey beans fetch a similar ...

... consuming eight soles au gratin, twelve lamb cutlets, a joint of roast veal weighing eigi.'t pounds, thrpe kilo- grammes of asparagus, and an omelette of twelve eggs, besides a 1 hitch cheese, twelve pounds of bread, ;.nd fifteen bottles of wine. At the conclu- ...

... are very good, bot cheap as yet. Spinach is excellent. consignments of new potatoes have been Gd from the Canary Islands. Asparagus decreasing in price, especially the lgn as there is such a good supply of English English grapes and peaches are they were ...

... English lettuces are sold in the markets at fronted to Is 6d per score, but West-end purchasers are charged 3d each for them. Asparagus is a little less expensive. Spinach has been rather dear of late. English tomatoes are being sold at from 3d to 6d per lb ...

... per lb. Larger arrivals may soon be expected, when prioe? will rapidly decrease. Seakale is now cheap, and French giant asparagus is considerably reduced in price since lasb week. Spring onions and small radishes are to be had. So far as fruit reduced ...