... which are exposed | obtain these statist will be issued from yAY, DECEMBER 16, 1865, aper, the Ita known as the Tuls The asparagus pla produced & erop doubl youngest aud stronge “France, the gardener 50 barriers, 24 ks, 10 publy 00 sterhing per 4 ¢, &e ...

... in this, and warned home Y)y the keepers, you will be shle to keep the creature in fair condition for 0118 time on tinned asparagus, By a little attention aud tact, you will thus find that antil your c. dies suddenly in a fit, or is removed by a peremp ...

... ourselves we are year after year letting the foreiguer send us. Carrots, broceoli, caulifiowers, radishes, lettuces, tomatoes, asparagus, &c., come largely from France and other countries, It is true they mostly come at a time when our English season bas hardly ...

... VEGRTABLES.—Where a mild heat for forcing vegetables can be maintaived, many kinds may now be had easily and in abundance. Asparagus roots, if placed in frames on a gentle hotbed, and the lights closed early in the day, will grow rapidly. Rhubarb, seakale ...

... potato would naturally represent the Irish, the fiery beet-root would serve fog the warlike Boulangists, the aristocratic asparagus mfiho do for the Cowtesse de Paris's elegint friends, while there is such a lot about eating in Lord Beaconsficld’s novels ...

... favourite poet Crabbe or OVERHEARD AT A RESTAURANT.—Diner : * Tt seems to me, waiter, that they have cut all the heads off this asparagus.”—Waiter (with gushing candour): *‘No, sir, no; but when hnptugu- ’as been two years in the tin, it’s hapt to lose its ‘eads ...

... Lettuce and radishes may also be sown. Finish plant ing the main erop of potatoes, also commence to make new plantations of asparagus and globe artichokes. Leeks for main crop should be sown on rich, wallg:ll‘verind soil Wgntar greens, such as coleworts, ...

... servedin this way requires no sugar for dressing, and is a wholesome breakfast du.hmgn‘ chil- To Dress Asparacus.—Serape the asparagus, and, after washing them in cold water, bind them in small bundles, placing the green heads together, and cut them off even ...

... fetch more than their weight in gold. The eye of poverty sees in the fruiterers’ windows strawberries at sixpence apiece and asparagus at a shilling a head, and the dry crust of poverty becomes the bread of discontent. Wealth, mot all unmindful of its duties ...

... in—that is, For the subsequent planting—and earthing them up, when the Dutch hoe is run among them. SAUTING AsPARAGUS BEDS,—Those who possess asparagus beds will do well to give them a dressing of salt now. This will greatly improve the quality of the ‘““grass ...

... potatoes. Peg down the shoots of vegetable marrows to the soil to induce them to root. Apply a light dressiog of salt over asparagus beds, MusarooMs,—Manure eollected into a heap should ‘be well turned over, shaking both damp straw and dung thoroughly together ...

... me have a small gl.?. of oxtail soup, with a follow o: roast sirloin of beef (underdone and without horse-radish), with asparagus and sauté potatoes.”—Waiter (in stentorian voice to man at lpuki::-tubo across the room) : “‘ Small ox, foller of beef under ...