... ASPARAGUS. Tbin out seedling' when they ere about ii*e or six inches high, leaving only one to each position. When cutting from established beds, ihe stems should separated as low down r.s possible, when the tops are about two inches above the surface ...

... FORCED ASPARAGUS. The magnitude of the yield depend! directly on the itrcngth of the forced, so that 4, 5, or 6 year old clnmps must be employed. Dog late in antnmn, with the least possible injury to their roots, those intended for forcing in bouses or ...

... request Lord Roberts to acoevt the freedom of the city. From now until Christmas asparagus will be more plentiful in England than ever before. It will be canned asparagus, grown in enormous quantities in California. The trade has developed in an extraordinary ...

... imminent, heaping up fern, leaves over the centres of the plants. The extra covering must he removed daring mild periods. ASpARAGUS> Established beds need good top dressing now. n mixture two or three inches horse and cow dang being desirable. Sea*weed ...

... INDIAN CORN, The green corn cobe are cooked and served like asparagus, while the grains are soft and milky. Sow early in May In rich and very deeply worked lonia, in a sunny sitnation, sheltered fn iv l.il-i winds, placing the seeds live inches , eight ...

... Technically they were right; the asparagus is not a fern. The two belong to distinct orders, the feria to Filices, the asparagus to Liliacoe. But it appears to us to have been a case for the exercise of a little comxnonsense. Asparagus pluinosus is now so much ...

... per lb., »B are Bru:sels sprouts and savoys. Beetroots, turnips, carrots, and celary are all plentiful. Small bundles of asparagus are to be bad at Is 6d, and new potatoes cost 9d per lb. Green vegetables do not sell as well as they ought, the public appearing ...

... fine days. Vegetable Garden.—When cutting asparagus the best plan is to cut everything, both large and small, as long as cutting is continued, and no grass should be cut after June. The proper time to feed asparagus with liquid manure or rich top dressings ...

... either in the Douse of Commons or out of it, would have given the same answer. If ho only went into a shop to boy early asparagus his whole soul was in the business. (Laughter and Hear, beax.) Strolling into a cathedral he got into the organ loft and ...

... and inexpensive. The supply of green vegetables continues to be abundant. Spinach is nnusually cheap. There is a little asparagus. Artichokes are 5d and 6ri each. Root artichokes cost lid and 2d per pound.—London Daily News, ...

... general practice to place the lions under the greenhouse stage, where they Mby be eorered with other boxes to exclude light. ASPARAGUS FORCING. Four year or elder roots are dag lata la autumn, and stored in cold sellar or shed under coreriag of straw or eeeoannt ...

... . Commencing with asparagus, we'l ati say that it is usually so much appreciated that wherever it is prac- ticable a rather liberal supplyg'soould be maintained during the early spring months. There are two ways of forcing asparagus by those wv o have ...