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... 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 ...
... force asparagus with anything like success there must be a command of warmth below the roots as well as above. In some gardeas there are frames or pits that are hested by means of hot water pipes for bottom and top heat, and in this way aspara~gus plants ...
... independent of the grub. Ridge cucumbers should be got forward; also tomatoes and vegetable marrow. A. soon as your young asparagus is from three to six inches high, let new plantations be made. ...
... to win prizes. ASPARAGUS OCmuBr (Inquirer).-'olt ask at the: outeet what is the best soil in. which to grow fine pragus; and we reply in the words of an expert: Rich sandy soil of good depth is nsaturalhy the best adopted for asparagus, and in such soil ...
... . 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 ...
... for an emergency in the way of prolonged frost, to have a small storoof roots of asparagus, seakealo, and rhubarb on hand for the purpose. Give bearing crops of asparagus plenty of air whenever favourable, as without this element the quality will be much ...
... Sanders; one dish of potatoes, Captain MvAdonald Smith; dish of kidney potatoes, Mr. Simpson ; cauliflowers, Mr. Simpson ; asparagus same exhibiter. Mrs. Compton exhibited a csase of very beautiful ferns,$ for which an extra prize was awarded. Extra prizes ...
... Some amateur' gardoeinrs tako 'a praiseworthy pride a in growing a little: asparagus, and it is good gardening b to have it in fiue character. In the south of England e b asparagus is rarelt dub from the beds after the middle ti of June; in the Mjidlamids ...
... them to him before taking them indoors, as he could not dis- criminate between the good and the bad. He bad been hoeing an asparagus bed, which he examined on Friday, and saw that some mushrooms or other fungi had been ?? this stage the Coroner said it would ...
... AND COTTAGE i I G ARDENING. PRACTICAL HINTS. [BY OCB SrECtML .ARDIINT CORJLESPON3NSf.] ASPARAGUS CUL'TURE. Of nll the vegetables in oultivation, the growth of asparagus and tonatoes appears to have the greatest attraction for aoatunrs, aid as there are always ...
... Vogetables: Cucumbers, Mr. Go, Iloway; six dishes of vegetables, Mr. Balstone; rhubarb, )kr. Simpson; potatoes, Mr. Balstone; asparagus, Mr. Hobea'e. Cottagers'Prizes, Bouquet of hardy flowers, Mr. 0- SmiA'i ; eighteen varieties of cut wild flowers Mr C Smithl; ...
... dishes of ditto, Mr. Hobson; three stlcksd rhubarb, Mr. Galloway; single dish of potatoes sprlngg.row Wr. D'Eenzle; dish of asparagus, Mr. Bslston. Cottageg prizes: Bouquet of hardy flowers, Miss Smith; cightem varieties of out, wild flowers, Ur. H. A. Ricketts; ...