... •AKING AN ASPARAGUS SSD, Aillobnentholders who are aware in the tenure of their pleas would be well advised to make an asparagus bed, for ones well made and planted it will continue bearing for a genera- Una. This is not the time of year to put in the ...

... CARE OF ASPARAGUS BEDS. We asparagus bed wlll last a generatea. even a lifetime, and continue productive if it is carefully attended to. Old fasitioned gardeners always had et axed date on which to cease cuttint asparagus. namely, June 21. After thet ...

... WHEN AND HOW TO PLANT ASPARAGUS. April and early - iniii - ii - aWgood seasons to plant asparagus. It is common to plant three rows on a five foot bed, the plants being from 15 to 18 inches apart in the rows. Some plant closer, a little more than one ...

... MeiL—Tliose who are fortunate enough to possess an asparagus bed often prejudice its chances by con- Milling to cut the produce too late in the season. Old-fashioned gardeners used to consider that asparagus ought not to be cut after the end of June. and ...

... sft. apart. Black currants must be in soil that does not get dried up In hot weather. TM Asparagus Bad.-1 don't suppose many allotment-holders possess asparagus, beds. but some do. and there is no good reaon why others who are certain of their tenure ...

... minute until it thiekeas, and pour boiling hot over the lettuce; mix with a leek and serve immediately. Asparagus With Saves.—ln cleaning the asparagus do not merely scrape it, r most people do, but pare it quite thick until you come to the soft pith in ...

... NOW DELP TO HOW SEEDS. E, asparagus; F, peas; G, French beans; H, runner beans; 1, broad tar vegetables ought to be pat is shown by the accompanying diagram. Peas and French beans are sown about two inches deep; runner and broad beano more deeply still ...

... THE KITCHEN CARDEN. ASPARAGUS CROWING. Asparagus is generally left to the gentleman's gar• dener and the market grower, although there is no reason why the small man should not cultivate the crop with as mach success on his allotment or in the kitchen ...

... great advantage of cutting out the old shoots is that a i good deal of big bud is thus destroyed Asparagus tads.—lf not already done, trim up asparagus beds, removing all the surface weeds, and if the soil is light a dressing of manure may be given, ...

... TIME-TABLE FOR BOILING. Potatoes half-an-hone, unless small, when rather leas time will be required. Pees and asparagus, twenty to twenty-Ire minutes. • Clibbege and cauliflower, twenty-five minutes to half-an-hour. &sing beano, if slit slantwiee and ...

... cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, lettuces, cress, celery radishes, cucumber, Brussels sprouts, green peas, French beaus, and asparagus. A good way of serving vegetables is to cook them in a little stock, or mash them and pass them through a sieve, making them ...

... plant and sow. A.PargUllM Allataviata.—Although the worker on a war-time plot does not, as a general rule, possess a bed of asparagus, on older-established alllotments some nne produce is often forthcoming. It is one of those crops that well repays delayed ...