... sunny spot well sheltered on the north and east.; It is also none too soon to begin preparing for a fresh r plantation of asparagus, if anything of the kiud is a in coutemplation, Drainage is the first point to be seen to, for, though a fairly moist site ...

... the prin- cipal sowing of kales, broccoli, cabbages, and savoys, will form the main bulk of seed sowing for the present. Asparagus plots should have a sprinkling of salt, and seakalo that has been forced on the ground should have all ashes, or whatever ...

... impor- taut market, viz., that of Covent Garden, London. la as For example, a tally of cabbages is 5 dozen; a pc in bundle of asparagus contains from 100 to 150 C by heads ; celery and broccoli, according to size, of of from 6 to 20 heads; rhubarb 20 to 30 ...

... use or shed, but, if light can be excluded in some way, any unused pit, if sufficiently deep, or house may be employed. Asparagus requires a stronger heat, and is usually forced in frames over a brisk hot-bod, taking the roots up when exhausted, and planting ...

... of work to be found under cover, especially where there is any extent of glass. The best mode to proceed in dealing with asparagus, when required early, is to force it in an ordinary frame over a good hotbed formed in the usual way of fermeutiog manure ...

... tice spaces nUOcW vilecut, p1laeinlg cabout six or eight incics of soil over tice iccfueu, ncoach In tics same nacicir as asparagus beds are doce. As soocell as t shoots appear above this ridge the soil is forked aside acid tice shoots are cit cleac otf ...

... What is known as ' cottrgers kale is probably the L, hardiest of all the varieties, but the dwvan-green r curled Scotch asparagus and purple - curled kales are ' a all of a vigorous nature and very useful. There is rf both an early and a late variety ...

... he went, with a young mail named Chandler, to watch, and they bad not teen there a minut before they saw a man on .the asparagus bed, stooping down, who,. on finding he was discovered, got over, the hedge into Conduit fields, and at- tempted to escape ...

... stible nivure, The iutest seakalo is always produced by meatts of the beot obtained from forinsiting materials only. For asparagus a slightly different mode of procedure is required. in this case a good solid bed of 1 properly sweetcned fermeitting manture ...

... Used for po- tatoes, says, found your manure give veryastisfact(ry results. T. A. Chambers, Ifflev. Oxford: ; Used for asparagus, pes, and runner beans; silts, verv good. T. Drayton, Bucknell, Birsttr: Useil for potatoes, arid am well satisfied. Had ...

... round again, and where much work 01 this kind ihus to be dore, constant attention is quite tecessary.P Rbabarb, senkale, asparagus, chicory, all these, as t. well as one or two other minor subjects, may be forced 8 tow that the leaves are off, and tbe ...

... as for cauliflower. Treated in this way they can be thinned and their growth completed without receiving a check. Water asparagus beds with liquid manure, and place manure iu the allays to keep out drought. Thin outgrowing ceops of all kinids, and keep ...