... A NEW USE FOR ASPARAGUS. Those wha are fond of small economies may, if they wish to make asmall fortune in a novel way, start a company for utilising the ends of asparagus. Probably not a dozen housewives in London bave the remotest idea that these things ...

... y-—OId potatoes, from 35s to » 7d per lb; cabbages, 10d ers, Isper dozen ; asparagus, 100 ; carrots, 6d per stone ; - onions (new), 44 per dozen *4d per peck; raddishes, 4d tomatoes, 1s 64 per 1b; each ; apples, 33 6d per peck ; s 6d; oranges, 19s a box ...

... from an acre of land is enormous, 10,000 having been cut yeek!y for 16 weeks, this asparagus grown at Potton is said to be superior in flavour even to the famous Ely asparagus. The ontlay in the first instance in the production of thisvegetable is heavy but ...

... TO GARDENERS. UANO, in any siz~ packets, for #ressing Flower, Onion, G Turnip, Carrot, Asparagus Beds, &c , &C. THOMAS SELLORS, CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, CROSS CHEAPING, COVENTRY. ...

... VEGETABLES. Green Peas in pod, and shelled ; Asparagus, Spinach, new Kidney and other Potatoes, ghubnrb, Spring Cabbage, new Carrots, new Turnips, new Onions, large Valentia Onions, new Cauliflowers, Mint, Fennell, and Herbs of all kinds. ...

... plant, which grows through the neck. Asparagus grown in this way is not coarse and ingipid like much giant asparagus that is forced, but delicate and tender as the thin green wild variety or the ordinary garden asparagus. Dr. Orsi has discovered, after long ...

... —Magnum bonums, 99s per ton; champions, 655; Hebrons, 90s; imperators, 90s; carrots, 30s per ton; new potatoes, 6d per Ib; asparagus, Isto 2s6d per 100 cabbages, 8d per dozen ; broceoli, Is: caaliflowers, 8d to 1s 6id ; ounions, 1s 4d per peck: do young ...

... new, from 5d per 1b; old, 6d per stone; rhubarb, 1d per bunch; carrots, 4d per stone; foreign apples, 1s 8d to 2; English asparagus, 1s to 2s per 100; onions, 1s per stone ; oranges, 6d to 9d per dozen; Jaffa do, 1s 3d per dozen ; Seville do, 4d to 6d per ...

... bonums, 9s to 11s; best Trentsiders, 9 te 11s per load. New potaises :—Round Maltas, 2d per 1b; best kidneys, 6d per 1Y ; asparagus, 2s per 100 ; cherries, 8d per 1b ; cauliflowers, 1s to 2s per dozea 5 tomatoes, 1s 2d per Ib, ...

... ’ d ™ and retired amid much laughter; while another gave champagne as * shampain.” Heirloom was spelt ** airloom,’ and asparagus * asparagrass.” The competitors were now reduced toeight, when a boy who haddone well so far received his “coup’” over ragamuffin ...

... magnum bonums, 9sto 1lls; best Trentsiders, 9s to 11s. New potatoes :—Round Maltas, 2d 'per 1b; best kidneys, 6d per Ilb. Asparagus, 1s 6d to 2s per 100 ; apricots, 1s to 1s 6d per dozen ; cherries, 6d and 8d per lb; apples (russets), 4d per Ib. Lovrn, ...

... favourite poet Crabbe or OVERHEARD AT A RESTAURANT.—Diner : * Tt seems to me, waiter, that they have cut all the heads off this asparagus.”—Waiter (with gushing candour): *‘No, sir, no; but when hnptugu- ’as been two years in the tin, it’s hapt to lose its ‘eads ...