CHATS WITH HOUSEKEEPERS

... cutting up the euds of cooked asparagus, salting and peppering them, then putting them in an omelet made in the wusal way. The remains of cold boiled asparagus may be served with mayonnaise, and will be found very good. Asparagus soup is nicely flavoured clear ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... complainant took hold of the asparagus in a most ob- jectionable manner, and when desired to leave the dub refused to do so. No more viblence was used than was necessary to remove him.-Air. Denman said the hand- ling the asparagus with one's fingers was more ...

The Home

... moderate oven for twenty minutes. An- chovy sauce served with pudding is an improvement. Asparagus is capital 'when stewved. Take one hundred heads of asparagus (the quantities can, of course, he reduced if desired), four ounces of breadorambe, three ...

GARDENING OPERATIONS

... the enemy from other plants, and, if daily examined, will in time clear the ground of this nuisance.-Asparagus: As peas are now coming into use, asparagus ought not to be cut so closely as it has been; all the weaker shoots may be allowed to grow after this ...

CALENDAR OF GARDEN WORK

... CALENDAR OF GARDEN WORK. (fBoom the Gandeneios Magazinc.) KITOHEN GARlDEN. Asparagus and seakale may be forced by the roughest of methods when there are plenty of leaves and large deep pits. Any one can nake up a forcing bad on a plot of spare ground ...

Chats With Housekeepers

... epicures have been known to acquire for asparagus. In the seven- teenth century there lived two individuals, Fontenelle, a scientific writer, and Cardinal Dubois, a politican. Both were passionately fond of asparagus, but Fontonelle liked it with oil, and ...

Poetry

... more coal on; Lct us push about the flagon, And the children play snap-dragon. .Make the most of moments flying, Whilst asparagus is tdying, And the green peas looal more distant, With the weather inconsistent. Loss of Spring a Fogy grudges, Morv, as ...

HORTICULTURE

... LXrcH* GARnmN.-New plnts tdons of asparagus and globe artichokes 8hould be made at once, choosing good deep rich soil that has been pre pared by being heavily tanured and, trenched two or three feet deep; also give the asparagus beds their sprlng dressing, ...

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC [ill]

... natural conseqaence of the prevalence of this fashion that attracts the puppies. Lmhon the Hqset.j To B 8TAUAeNT-RESPES8 -A&sparagus and green peas are in the market. Place then boldly upon the bill of fare. It any body should ask for them, say tbat they ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... several baskets of enormous asparagus, the finest of which is shown by Sherault, who also exhibits the plant growing, of one, two, three, and. four years old, Whether it is owing to the climate, or, whether to the species of asparagus, or to the manner of ...

HOUSEWIFE'S CORNER

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Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society

... Culham. Cnuumbers-1. John Parsons, Esq., Iffley; 2. R. Stanton Wise, Esq., Banbury. Cauliflowers-1. The Bishop of Oxford. Asparagus-1. Mr. W. Adams; 2. Mr. V. Wakefield; 3. Mr. W. Day; 4. Mrs. Ensworth. Lettuces-1. Ml. G. Morris, Summertown; 2. the Earl ...