... Though suffered haply at that rhrone to bowe. MAPPI N & Asparagus Dish and Drainer, £2 ts. Pair Servers to match, richly Engraved, Ivory handles, £l Is. WEBB'S ?? Registered XVII. Centtry Pattern' Asparagu. Eaters, 2s. 6d . Sterling Silver, Full Size Antique ...

... the dinner parties I of Rome equal ours for luxurious appoint- I mentsP Hlad the Romans a special instrument for taking up asparagus? Did they rejoice in the possession of tishlinives? Were they initiated into the mysteries of brown bread and! butter and ...

... water add a large tablespoonful of salt and a tiny bit of soda. When the asparagus is cooked drain the bundles in a colander. Dip % piece of toast into the water in which the asparagus was cooked, and Put it into the vegetable dish. Cut away the string from ...

... bloom, six varieties; 1st, ericas three'varieties; 1st, greenhouse azaleas; 1st and 2nd for figs -st, cucumber; and 1st, asparagus. -Mr. W. E. Dixon, Beverley.-lst for twelve va- riegated and ornamental foliaged plants; 2nd, six varieties of stove or ...

... Sanders; one dish of potatoes, Captain MvAdonald Smith; dish of kidney potatoes, Mr. Simpson ; cauliflowers, Mr. Simpson ; asparagus same exhibiter. Mrs. Compton exhibited a csase of very beautiful ferns,$ for which an extra prize was awarded. Extra prizes ...

... amongst them. W RtiiBDY FRUIT AND - KITcHEN GADDEN.-Asparagus as bed, in full cutting, i. e., in their prime, may have every shoot cut away until the middle of June. Sprue, or y very small asparagus may however be permitted to grow. This Will t the ...

... Deudrocinus, Epidendrous, Ltolias, Anguloas, &e. &e., very tastefully arranged with palms, and fiue feathery foliage of Asparagus plumosum. In tleo comlpeting elasscs thero was a fairly good array of greenhouse and stove plants; in the class for six varieties ...

... trcnbhing of ground as it becomes vacant, :end during the prevel- once of dry wyeather keep it eell forked. The young plants of asparagu.s xwill now bee ready fur planting in beds, which it is hopedl hive been kept well prepared ; let the roots be c:irefully ...

... caybo, are other instances of similar nature to the Pitch Lake.-T'he Argonaguf for Judy. ASPARAGus.-Both the Greeks and the earlier Romans applied the term asparagus to the octsjl many plaits, and not merely to one botanical spseic! They probably ate it ...

... the Nord has discovered a new mode of restoring exhausted asparagus beds. He spread during the spring 1201b. weight of common salt over a piece of ground thirty feet long by six wide. The asparagus plants, though old and exhausted, produced a crop double ...

... as follows:- Mr. James Walters, chemist, a fine collection of potatoes, beans, peas, rhubarb, onions, turnips, parsnips, asparagus, gooseberries, apples (1862), black currants, strawberries, &c. (not for competition, but highly recommended, especially ...

... ducks 6s per couple, chIcken, 4s 6d to 5s, cream Is per 1b, br-tter 10d to Is, eggs 15 for Is, bread 64d per 41b loaf, asparagus Is 4d per 100, gooseberries 2.1d per quart, strawberries 5d, peass 8d to Is 8d per peek, potatoes (new) Is 6d to 2s per score ...