... VEGETABLES. Asparagus should not be planted till the weather begins to get genial, in April (says Farm Life ), but the preparation of the beds should no longer be delayed. Even if the soil is quite good it should be 'trenched • three feet deep, and ...

... German chemists are ahowing that great quantities of oil may be recovered from the inateriala that have been largely waated. Asparagus seeds contain 12 per cent, of oil; lime-tree fruit 9 or 10; elm-tree fruit, 9 to 14; and horse-chestnuts and cherry-atones ...

... amount of nitrogen they contain, are easily digested. Fruits and acid vegetables (tomatoes) are good for the liver, while asparagus and carrots are good for the kidneys. The sufferer from dyspepsia will find turnips, spinach, creases, lettuce, and noasted ...

... manure, and then scatter the salt lightly on the top of it, turning on the soil behind immediately. If the holding contains asparagus beds milt is excellent for them. •It Any be mattered over them in the early sprint at the rate of about one gallon to every ...

... roots. • • • Catting Asparagus.—Somc care is amen , tial in cutting the heads, or the buds near t: crown or the plant may be d a maged. not cut too low down, merely an inch or 10 beneath the using a proper asparagus knife. Asparagus ought not to be cut ...

... available always, and the others would sicken one in time. The following are rather poor in paring: Seakale, spinach, rhubarb, asparagus, parsnips, carrots, turnips, peso. beans, lentils, onions, potatoes, oatmeal, dates, figs, codfish, sole. The most mischievous ...

... more harm than frosts. If short sticks cannot he had, sprinkle a little hay over the row. The plants in old-established asparagus beds are now on the move, and if a is to be applied, do it at once. Failing manure or the usual light dreesing e, _f salt ...

... rosy mauve celoarnig, and ' Asti%e grandis has handsome white Bower-spikes often reach • height of six feet. _ _ _ Case of Asparagus Itoots.—Plants which I have become well established in beds many roots, and unless close attentiir is given them, many get ...

... lying on the groned and covered with a mass of haulm rarely fill sufficiently well to be proffiable. Do not neglect the asparagus bed, bat keep the surface free from weeds, and after rain give the beds a good soaking of fairly strong manure water. Dwarf ...

... Make the soil firm before sowing in drills lin. deep and not than 9in. apart. On no account use the hoe for ridding the asparagus bed of weeds now showjug; pull these up by hand, treading upon the ground as little as poseible. A good soaking of manure ...

... sometimes adopted: the dung is usually Cadon ground and ploughed systeen he. the advantage et work in spring. VEGETABLES. Asparagus beds should be put in order for the summer (asp Farm Life ). Remove an rank, httery portions of the manure, and if this ...

... most beautifully decorated by Mr. H. C. Offer (gardener at Adhuret) and Mr. C. IL Holloway (gardener at Burlian House) with asparagus fern and other r:nPry profusely studded with narcissi. The i. 11. Thomas read the committal prayers. The remains were lowered ...