... Asparagus. Asparagus roots may be forced in heated brick pita, or hotbeds made up chiefly of Oak or Beech leavaa to which stable-dung may be added, to ensure readier fermentation. Ureatcr care is necessary with fermenting material than with hot-water ...

... Asparagus. It will now be question with'many Mop the removal of shoots from the plants. The exact time will depend on the part of the country; in tki south, the middle of the present month ia lata enough, and certainly no more cutting should be done if ...

... Asparagus. Cutting should be discontinued at once, even if this has not already been done. It is best to cut all the shoots, both large and small, to a certain date, and then cease entirely, lotting the rest grow on unchecked. very numerous, however, ...

... Forcing Asparagus. Thb roots will now force more readily, especially those which have been prepared for this purpose, and whose tops ripened off early. The late frosts will have induced a more perfect state of rest if the crowns i*re exposed the air. ...

... Forcino Asparagus. This is not at all a difficult matter, provided only that one has plenty of good fermenting materials (fresh stable manure, leaves, &k), one or more stout garden rames, with glazed sashes, ami number of robust four-year or five-year-old ...

... Forcing Asparagus. This delicious esculent requires much more heat to it at this season than either rhubarb seakale, and in other ways is much more costly when so treated, as the roots must have been grown for four or five years previously without being ...

... Asparagus on the Continent. A few words on the way asparagus is treated on the Continent. In the first place, a newly laid out asparagus bed is left alone for the first three years, and the first crop is taken in the fourth year. As soon as the tops shew ...

... Cultivation of Asparagus. Among neglected crops that are profitable to grow in this country asparagus may, without doubt, be placed. It is not difficult to grow, and any farmer who lias field of good friable soil-heavy land will not do—may produce a crop ...

... Making Asparagus Bed. The usual ptacti'e now in making Asparag ed or breadth is trench 2ft deep the area of grou; at is to s > cropped. doing this keep the both soil where it is, Imt thoroughly breaking it up with fork after the top spit has I taken nil ...

... Making Asparagus Bed. Eschew the old laborious plan of raised * ...

... Asparagus and its Culture. Asparagus a or esculent, that, though universally esteemed and grown, or attempted to be grown, in nearly every garden of any pretensions, is yet very little understood. As a matter of fact it is one of the easiest of plants ...

... Forming Nbw Asparagus Beds. It is not yet too late to transplant asparagus, the young plants, which alone are suitable, being best moved when commencing growth. It is not absolutely necessary to trencn the ground 3 feet or even 2 feet deep, as good results ...