... ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. A lady in Cheshire sends me a fine spray of this beautiful asparagus. It is one of the Asparagus Ferns, so called by many, and this variety is tbe best of them all. It is very free in growth. The fronds or sprays grow to a length ...

... FORCING ASPARAGUS There are few forced vegetables more valued in the winter time than Asparagus. It may be had from the middle of November until it comes in naturally out of doors. We have always found roots to force best when they are three or four years ...

... -sized, crisp, sweet Asparagus, 'here are thousands of your readers who could give a little manure to a row of Asparagus in autumn, and more manure by a sprinkling of salt in summer, who never cedd take the trouble of making an Asparagus bed in the old- fashioned ...

... fond oi Asparagus as a vegetable, that was the portion of the garden which attracted him, and as it was on French-grown Asparagus that Mr. Robinson had so very much to say, and said it so well, it went home, and be raved abont French Asparagus and French ...

... SIMPLE ASPARAGUS CULTURE One of the errors in Asparagus culture is crowding the plants closely together in the bed. A deep excavation is made, which is filled with rich materials, and the cultivator, in order to get the most of the narrow space which ...

... FORCING ASPARAGUS IN BEDS The practice of forcing Asparagus in perm__» ent beds (writes J. C. C, in The Garden) has never been adopted so mnch as the merits of the system deserve. It is certainly a more economical plan than that of lifting the roots and ...

... IMPROVEMENTS IN ASPARAGUS CULTURE. We hope the prises offered by Mr. William Robinson, of The Garden, will inaugurate a new era in Asparagus Culture in this country, not that the plant has been neglected hitherto or ill cultivated, but because better ...

... ASPARAGUS : HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT IT This vegetable although indigenous to this country aud to many of the temperate aud colder countries of the earth, has been cultivated for centuries. The Romans , iv the time of Pliny, had attained great perfection ...

... SOME HINTS ON ASPARAGUS SOWING AND PLANTING. This much esteemed vegetable is not one of those that is commonly only to be found on the tables of the wealthy, for its culture is simple, and it will grow in the garden of the cottager just as well as anywhere ...

... RIDGE AND FURROW SYSTEM OF ASPARAGUS GROWING. Perfect success in the cultivation of asparagus is ?? always assured to the most painstaking cultivator, for it is a vegetable with marked pretlilections for certain coni- binatious of soil, subsoil, and climate ...

... before the Asparagus comes in, and for some weeks afterwards. From a south border we generally commence cutting the Mercury early in April, and continue cutting'until the end of June. Some of our friends say they like it better than Asparagus ; but we cannot ...

... can be no doubt as to the hardihood of Asparagus, and yet when the crowns are toe near the surface, they are in danger of being injured by frost. This in some measure accounts for the custom of growing the Asparagus in beds four -end-half or five feet wide ...