... are specially inteaded to lead the way to the production of finer asparagus in this counitry, and more of it thanhs -hitherto been seen amongst us. The French grow Vhe finest asparagus without doubt, and that effmiency is largely due to their system of ...

... EmrEROR WILLIAM OF GERAIANY'S FAVOURITE D)IsMt is asparagus, and the Emperor loses no opportunity of partaking of his pet dainty. Lately, however, according to the Amncrica/c Regisler, whenever asparagus has been served at the Berlin Schloss, the Emperor ...

... crop which the richer farmers find answers very well is asparagus. The heads are singularly fine, and there is always a demand for this particular asparagus in the neighbouring market. But the asparagus requires from four to five years before it gets to full ...

... ?? to say nothing of three full-page chromos, detached from the letterpress. ENGLISH ASPARAGUS IN MID-WINTER. A CHAT WITH A COVENT GARDEN SALESMAN. English asparagus in mid-winter ! It is hardly conceivable, but is neverthe- less a fact. Mr. E. A. Hubbard ...

... the rule to make asparagus beds-thatr is, in the form in which they were known to past days, and even still furnish many examples. Probably no more elaborate nonsense was ever written about the cultivation of any plant tihan of asparagus, for writers held ...

... when in a large garden with the admirable foresight -shown by the gardeuer -in -the matter of obtaining a regular supply of asparagus, a vegetable that may, perbhps, -be sorerwb ltbo scarce and costly for general consumption, but -which :i, in good oil, an ...

... its expedition with high prices. But people Leing naturally conservative, it took a long time to argue from potatoes to asparagus and tomatoes. At last the mental process was performed, and Scilly exported three articles of agricultural produce. It was ...

... beef; preserved turkoy and fowl, curricd fowl, curried oysters, beef a la mode, Boston baked beans and bacon; tomatoes, asparagus, potatoes, peas, beans ; preserved pineapples, pcaches, greengages, pears, apricots, egg plums, and green fruit. The roast ...

... would well repay the outlay and careful cultivation. FORCING ROOTS.-The chief forced roots are rha- barb, sealcale, and asparagus. Where a large quan- tity of each can be grown, all are most valuable ad- dibions to the ordinary winter vegetables when ...

... ditches, drains, &O. KITCHErN AREsst. Asparagus beds should be made during the winter, so as to insure their being ready for planting upon, at the proper time, in the early spring season. To grow good Asparagus it is not essential that the old bed and ...

... NO VEGETABLES. THE reappearance upon our tables of seakale and asparagus-our only two eatable greenstuffs-naturally raises once more the perennial question Why have we in England no vegetables ? To doubt the fact is imppos sible-at least to anybody who ...

... of asparagus, and explained the techni calits e which1 it might be grown all the year roun ,Iis: a cussions followed, in which Mr. H. Vilmorin, Of the r of Vilmorin-Andrieus, of Paris, described the veso h of growing the well-known giant asparagus at ...