... ASPARAGUS. A hint to boiling asparagus I have found very useful, for have often observed that the asparagus which I sometimes get from a country friend’s garden, with the succulent green stalk, is much pleasanter eat, and there is more of it that is nice ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... GARDEN WORK FOR THE WEEK. Asparagus and seakale may be forced by the roughest of methods when there are plenty of leaves and large deep pits. Anyone can make up a forcing bed on a plot of spare ground by means of a few boards to form the boundary of the ...

... unquestionably genteel in most respects, and in personal appearance almost distingue, but it would pain you to see her eat asparagus. ...

... them of their origina homes on tiecoasts n of the Mediterranean region. : b ASPARAGUS AS AN ORNAMENTAL PLANT. . Apart frorp the edible' qualities of the garden 0 r asparagus, it is one of the handsortiest of fine a] X foliage plants; but the same inc ...

... the drenching perspiration that may be induced by hot water will be very certain to remove it. How TO BOIL ASPARAG us. -Asparagus of the stouter sort, always when of the giant variety, should be cut of exactly equal lengths, and boiled, standing ends ...

... dealing with men are incompatible with an irritable brain, a week'stomach, or a defective circulation. AsPARAGUS.-The proper way to cook asparagus is not generally known. In the first place a pot of some depth is required, and it is well in preparing ...

... 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 ...

... aud primroses in full bloom in our gardens.-Anothor correspondent writes to the same journal :—I enclose three heads of asparagus, cut out ofgariten this day,grown in the open. 1 think it a remarkable evidence of the mild weather we are hl vil1 in the ...

... GARDEN WORK FOR THE WEEK. I Asparagus and seakale for the first supply to be started at once. All that is wanted is a mild sweet bottom heat. A melon or cucumber bed still retaining some warmth may be revived by turning it over, and mixing with the dung ...