... ASPARAGUS RUST. For the last few years asparagus-growers in Worcester- shire have been troubled with asparagus rust. During /ast year and this the disease increased very rapidly The !ungus causing this disease is a true rust, belonning to the same group ...

... Asparagus beautiful in foliage and frnifc that it is strongly recomm°nded for caltivation ia order to decorate shnbbery and table. Home Missions.—On Sunday two very powerfnl re.-mons were preached at St Just's Wesleynn chape! behalf ef these missions ...

... The crow flies at the rate of about twenty-five miles hour. Asparagus is the oldest known plant that has been used as food. A Penny changes hands 125,000 times in the course of a lifetime. The Baroness Burdett'Coutts owns the finest flock of goats in ...

... GARDEN. Fine Asparagus.—Some 7ery fine asparagus bu been grown t'llis season Mr. J. Barnard, market gardener, Sittingbourne, on ground in bis occupation in Park-road. Ihree hundred heads were cut last week which weighed lb One bundle of asparagus, containing ...

... sweet hay than on any other provender. Fine Asparagus. Mr. Barnard, Sittingbourne, Kent, gives his experience of fine asparagus grown this season. Last season I sent to Covent-garden market one bundle of asparagus (105 buds) weighing 12Mb. Last Season will ...

... Madeira growers anticipate putting asparagus on the English markets from December to May. French and English asparagus is plentiful at these times. What chance, then, have the Madeira growers to send us early asparagus ? Consider the quality of the Madeira ...

... they find such shelter among the oak-leaves. Asparagus can be most successfully grown on light soils, resting on gravelly subsoil. The plant must have abundance of rich food. In hot, dry positions asparagus is liable to suffer from drought and would be ...

... MARKET GARDEN MEMS. Australian Asparagus for London tables seems to possibility of the early future. Experiments have been tried lately the Victorian Government cold store at Melbourne, and asparagus kept in cool—not frozen— state for seven weeks has ...

... London markets green peas are ls. per lb. un!-helled ; French beans 81. to Is.; and asparagus, for small bundles of perhaps three dozen heads, cost 7s. 61. The giant asparagus is high-priced. There is good supply of early rhubarb, grown ont of doors. Tbe best ...

... stem of the flower or asparagus frond, which is .'astened it by wires scarcely thicker than a human hair. Some eighteen Cattleyas, for example, would be wanted for a full and handsome Court bouquet, with unlimited feathery asparagus. As soon these are wired ...

... soil. Prick them ont 6 inehes apart, and afford a little shade quring the heat of the day for a few days. ASPARAGUS.—When Midsum cutting of asparagus should ceas e@, and more mer day has come the lly if heads are req next year. For late supplies a bed or ...

... County-council lecturer on horticulture, experiments will tried in dwarf beans, asparagus potato?, cabbages, carrots and peas. The Hon. remarked that he had cultivated asparagus and sent it to the London, Liverpool, and Birmingham markets, and the receipt* ...