... Fruit and Kitchen Garden. ASPARAGUS.—In planting this it is of the utmost importance to give every attention to a, proper rotation of crops. Where celery is grown in what are called Scotch beds, the latter make capital asparagus ground. The preparation ...

... last point of starvation before they will venture on them. Be sure to salt all asparagus and seakale-beds-little and often is best. The time is approaching for planting asparagus; it should not be put in until six or eight inches high. Continue to protect ...

... green pods and seeds from the same plante Take up onions, shallots, and garlic as they ripen, and store for winter. Give asparagus beds plenty of liquid manure vhere available. and use the grass-mowings from the lawn as mulchings to prevent the soil from ...

... ba0m 5, into. ASPARAGUS COULTIVATION AT AlRGENTElUIL. A correspondent of the Timcs gives sr. ascoant of asparas gus oultivation at Argehtenil, a few miles from Pari5. He to says :-Io planting asparagus it Is oonsidered desirable pE that bhe ground ahonld ...

... in its fifth edition, and dates from 60 years ago. Among the recipes, dated 1830, we find prescriptions for stewed asparagus, asparagus omelette, bath buns, fried beetroot, black-cap pudding, broiled mushrooms, fried cauliflower with white sauce, macaroni ...

... the stalks. Similar remarks apply to asparagus. Seakals not intended to he lifted for forcing may be covered with about half an inch of ashes, and if a sprinkling of salt-about half the quantity given to asparagus prior to potting on the ashes-is given ...

... means are most useful when asparagus is not required very early. Few Lardens can boast of such meaus, but must have recourse to a mere simple method-viz., lifting and bringing it into an old dung pit. That really good asparagus is produced. by such means ...

... fruits. Lentils spinach, and salads, it says, are a remedy for aneemia, lemons for bilious affections, figs for cancer, asparagus for heart disease, grapes for matadies of the skin, apples for lumbago, horse- radish for colds, and celery for scurvy. Th6 ...

... in its fifth edition, and dates from 60 years ago. Among the recipes, dated 1830, we find prescriptions for stewed asparagus, asparagus omelette, bath buns, fried beetroot, black-cap pudding, broiled mushrooms, fried cauliflower with white sauce, macaroni ...

... the very small Asparagus is quite good enough. But it a-must not be simply 'bodled, and served with be incited butter or Oiled butter in the ordinry a -y, but it must be well-cooked in such a way ofas the following: -Boil the asparagus in the ag usual ...

... faucy-now otlen carried into effect-is teat of serving the asparagus warm and the sauce cold, or rice versm, ice being frequently used to enhance the cold of sauce or I vegetable, as may be. Asparagus, if'served with- oet accompaniment of meat and gravy, is ...

... their normal and definite size. ASPARAGUS This crop is a good one in 1897, both quantity and quality being satisfactory. The old raised beds of asparagus are being discarded. K The habit is of the remotest antiquity, asparagus having been grown by the Romans ...