... there Is in ordinary market asparagus. It is difleult to give asparagus too much dung, and a slight coaling when-the haulm Is- ?? down and the:earthinglis done, is desdiable. We have often urged gardeners to allow the asparagus to grow two or three Inches ...

... cooking of vegetables is not usually a strong Doint in our English kitchenus, and the delicate asparagus suffers, perhaps, more than anything elee. When buying asparagus always choose the crispest bunches; they are the freshest. Cut the stalks into equal lengths ...

... them lie in cold salted water for an hour. Add salt and a tablespoonful of vinegar to boiling water, stand the bundles of asparagus up- right in a wire vegetable basket, andcook fortwenty-fivetothirty minutes, whenthe heads will be tender. If a wire basketbe ...

... RITS FOR T KITCHE i Asparagus is now at its best. Always serve it piping kot. t is never well to boil it too mueh, from ten to fifteen minutes being about the stipulated time. If very thick, it takes longer. If it is allowed to remain in the water after ...

... Those who sow seeds should do so in about a week's time. Sow them in drill-rows thinly. Finish packing up or picking over Asparagus beds in instanesv where delayed so lng, otherwise the crop 'will form and push through cr0r the operation he completed.': ...

... hardy nature, when in re- quest in the earliest season, requirealso the assistance of hotbeds, such as salading, radishes, asparagus, kidney beans, peas, &c, now proceed to procure necessary sup- plies of hot dung, composts, and other requisites. And for ...

... these we may mention asparagus The moet reedy way of forming the beds for this always dear vegetable is to plant onesyear old sorts; but the cheapest way is to sow the seed-only you have a year longer to wait. The soil in which asparagus Is to be grown well ...

... o erover n eep them near the glas, and be partieular that they are watered before they ge dry, as they rill grovr faspt ASPARAGUS. Perhanps there is no greater iluory among vegetables then aspsrowu, ualess it be pthe; but we may forco the one a good deel ...

... aivantages of a country life over mine, and talks largely of growing his own asparagus and peas, and feeding his own pork, and having new- laid eggs. Sir, what is this? When his asparagus and peas come up he is compelled to eat them, because. they are growing ...

... at this time over Asparagus beds. We havetaken nolittle painsto explain and prove that whilst Asparagus is one of the very bar- diest of plants; it succumbs nevertheless to uo- due moisture around its roots during the winter Asparagus beds, therefore, ...

... out. But the rows of those in cut are not to be disturbed.- Earth them up each year, and they will do for several seasons. Asparagus is another fine vegetable that wants but little attention when the beds are once isade, and this is easily accomplished. ...

... , pot, or bex, put them into a warrm cupboard, or in the open kit. eben. Other things require better accommodation. For asparagus, make a hotbed ae if for euoumbers. When three Iches of coll icon, ard the heat genial, procure three- year old rote of asparaguc ...