... for breakfast. In any case, if the asparagus is to be enjoyed in perfection it must be fresh. Its ?? may be known by the stiffness of the heads. If the heads droop and are ?? the-asparagus-is staie. To boil Asparagus, scrape the stalks near the roots, ...

... 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 ...

... far finer heads by growing asparagus In rows four feet apart, and two feet from rout to rout in the rows. There is no deep trenchrtig to begin with, and no raised beds are required afterwards, unless in damp situations. Asparagus is grown on the flit, earth ...

... celery, but only when the ground Is dry. Protect artichokes by a good layer of lfler, and trench up the furrows. Cut down asparagus wvhen the haulm is fully ripe; clear the beds of surface and particularly of root weeds ; fork the beds over very lightly ...

... green geese, 75 to 7s Gil each; ?? Is to Is 3d each; leverele, is 61i ea'ch; *t1 to ls each; rhubarb 1:I to 3c ner immile. asparagus, 2s to 2s Gl per 1Q ; gooseb. rri- e 2i- per lb. ; chterrics,*l tii 6(1 per ,1.; ?? is 2D per quart; black andl rel Currsnist ...

... ??t All shoots, both large and smell, first produced on the asparagus beds, should Dow be cut away, allowing, however, ?? to shoot up into leaf, until the period arrives when cutting is discontinued for the season; this is usually about the middle of ...

... but will be less likely to suffer from disease than if succeeding a heavily manured crop, such as onions or celery. Diess asparagus beds, and sow or plant new ones. Sow a litla Sutton's dark beet, cabbage of sorts, carrot, and borecole. Plant out cauli- ...

... Look carefully over the beds and make any failures good before the rest are so far advanced as to give an uneven effect. - Asparagus is always agreeable, but ?? expensive. vegetable, is just now being imported in large quoantities from Toulouse and the north ...

... into milk, and when properly infused used the liquid as a cosmetic. Asparagus was not osly prized for its delicious flavour, but was also valued for its rmedici- nrl qualities. Asparagus his been recommended as se curs for bydrophIobia, the green shoots ...

... ?O?iiuUnre. Water asparagus beds with liquid manure, and place manure in the alleys to keep out drought. Tbin out grow. ing crops of all kinds, and keep the hoe constantly at work to prevent the appearance of weeds. Few vegetables are more productive ...

... by having a number of spruce fir, yew, or other evergreen branches placed over them. Attend to the forcing of rhubarb and asparagus, and, if possible, keep up a supply equal to the demand. Frequently examine cauliflowers and lettuce, in frames ; divest ...

... finer heads by grow- ing asparagus in rows four feet apart, and two feet from root to root in the rows. There is no deep trenching to begin with, and no raised beds are required afterwards, unless in damp situations. Asparagus is grown on the flat, earth ...