... ASPARAGUS G. WINFIELD, Sen HAS ASPARAGUS fresh every Morning from his Garden, and various other kinds of Vegetables. N.B. —O. W. Sen has SALE a large quantity of BATTKESSES, COW CABBAGE PLANTS, CAULIFLOWER, CUCUMBERS, and other Vegetables. May had at ...

... ASPARAGUS G. WINFIELD, Sen Has ASPARAGUS fresh every Morning from his Garden, and various other kinds of Vegetables. N.B. —G. W. Sen. has ON SALE larae quantity of BATTRESSES, or COW CABBAGE PLANTS, CAULIFLOWER, CUCUMBERS, and other Vegetables. May be ...

... soil, when carefully planted with asparagus after three years, worth £1,000 per acre. fact, asparagus will not do well on heavy soil, and salt is the best manure for it. The mistake in this country is that the asparagus plants are put much too close together ...

... ASPARAGUS. Cutting should be discontinuerd at once, even if this has not already been done. It i 5 be to cut all the shoots, both largo and small, ut to a Certain date, and then (*Me entirely, letting the rest grow on unchecked. If very numerous, hovrever ...

... ASPARAGUS. IT will usually be found necessary to trench the land intended to be formed into beds to the full depth the soil will allow without spoiling it, putting plenty of half-rotten manure at the bottom of the trenches, and some fully decayed beneath ...

... ASPARAGUS. The month of April is passing away rapidly now, and before long the plants, even in open. air beds, will be chewing signs of returning growth. A good plan, by the way, of protecting the tender tops from late frosts is to cover each evening ...

... ASPARAGUS. The monster slicks sometimes exhibited are grown in very rich soil from plants placed yard apart. ...

... ASPARAGUS. will now be question with'many when to stop the removal of shoots from the plants. The exact time will depend on the part of the country; in the south, the middle of the present month is late enough, and certainly no more cutting should be ...

... ASPARAGUS COMPETITION. On Tuesday the competition for May-grown asparagus took place at St. Mary's. The exhibits were not numerous but the quality of the seasonable delicacy exhibited could not be excelled. Mr. Francis Legir, of Lunnan, took the first ...

... lovers of asparagus, and had his own idea' as to the proper mode of growing it —ideas which he never lost an opportunity of commending with all available arguments to his friends. But the person who was at once the most ardent admirer of asparagus, sad the ...

... ASPARAGUS CULTURE. ALL garden ground devoted to the crop should, if possible, be turned up 3ft. deep, and heavily manured with green manure towards the bottom and decayed manure towards the top, in a position where young roots when forming can derive ...

... PRIZES FOR ASPARAGUS. With a view to improve and extend the culture of asparagus throughout the United Kingdom, it is proposed to give scries of annual prizes, extending over a period of seven years. These prizes will given in London. Edinburgh, Dublin ...