... of the area is to be kept in a high state of culti- vation. Australian asparagus for London tables seems to be a possibility of the early future. Some time ago a quantity of asparagus from Victoria was brought to Lomlon, but it was landed in a frozen condition ...

... ago he assisted at the arrival of the tirst Argenteud asparagus at Covent Garden Market. The salesman carefully sorted the asparagus, and placed the large ones in a basket ticketed English asparagus. All the little ones he tied up in a bundle and labelled ...

... had been j accustomed to receive from Catholic sources He | humorously compared the subscribing public to a I bundle of asparagus, portions of which re- i quired a longer time to cook than others In ! other words the Cardinal has fallen between ; two ...

... Messrs. Carter also made a great display, their stand being elegantly decorated with a Jubilee device consisting of sprays of asparagus fern rising from each of the four corners and meeting at the top in a crown of yellow immortelles and red geraniums with ...

... park-terrace. He called to them to stop, but they walked away very quickly, and when he went to sei/e Wilson, who had a pair of asparagus tonus sticking out of his coat-tail pocket, Wilson called to tiie other piisoner Go for him Johnson thereupon turned, ...

... also has most of the furniture and fittings throughout the club, while a special supply of French vegetables, including asparagus, has been sent over for the inaugural banquet i to-night. The wine cellar is small, but furnished with a | remarkably varied ...

... hil. A similar trophy was carried oil' by .Messrs. (i. Paul, of Cheshunt, for hardy cut flowering shrubs. A new kind of asparagus -not edible was shown for the first time by the St. (.eoige's Nursery, Hanwell. It is called plumo.-us Sanderi, and obtained ...

... elegant floral car of shell-like contour, embossed with double scarlet pelargoniums, and surmounted by a canopy of smilax and asparagus plumosus, crowned with white bells of campanula persicifolia. The car was escorted by a bevy of fair children in fancy costumes ...

... 18s. per oz. ; a pair of table candlesticks, 1734, £11 45.; a pair of Corinthian column candlesticks, £12 5a. ; a pair of asparagus tongs, with feathered edges, at 225. per oz. ; an Early English Apostle spoon, with figure of St. Matthew, 1612, £10 ; the ...

... followed and called on them to stop, hut they continued their flight until he was close upon them. Wilson, who had a pair of asparagus tongs sticking out of his coat-tail pocket, turned to John. on. and said, Go for him. Johnson then came towards ! him with ...

... extracted from it, and the large stem bamboos, which when tbey first come out of the ground are soft and succulent like asparagus. Professor E. Gray showed the telautograph, an inge- nious telegraphic mstrumentbywhich a writer atone station using a lead ...

... apples iv admirable condi- tion. Cultural commendation was awarded to Earl Percy's gardener, Mr. Wythes, for bunches of asparagus grown in the open with the aid of decayed leaves, chicory, and other ; ?? the afternoon a paper by Professor i Marshall Ward ...