Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society

... Culham. Cnuumbers-1. John Parsons, Esq., Iffley; 2. R. Stanton Wise, Esq., Banbury. Cauliflowers-1. The Bishop of Oxford. Asparagus-1. Mr. W. Adams; 2. Mr. V. Wakefield; 3. Mr. W. Day; 4. Mrs. Ensworth. Lettuces-1. Ml. G. Morris, Summertown; 2. the Earl ...

RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

... Though suffered haply at that rhrone to bowe. MAPPI N & Asparagus Dish and Drainer, £2 ts. Pair Servers to match, richly Engraved, Ivory handles, £l Is. WEBB'S ?? Registered XVII. Centtry Pattern' Asparagu. Eaters, 2s. 6d . Sterling Silver, Full Size Antique ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1891
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: 29 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Home

... water add a large tablespoonful of salt and a tiny bit of soda. When the asparagus is cooked drain the bundles in a colander. Dip % piece of toast into the water in which the asparagus was cooked, and Put it into the vegetable dish. Cut away the string from ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... the dinner parties I of Rome equal ours for luxurious appoint- I mentsP Hlad the Romans a special instrument for taking up asparagus? Did they rejoice in the possession of tishlinives? Were they initiated into the mysteries of brown bread and! butter and ...

FLOWER SHOW AT ALTRINCHAM

... 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 ...

THE FLORAL SHOW

... bloom, six varieties; 1st, ericas three'varieties; 1st, greenhouse azaleas; 1st and 2nd for figs -st, cucumber; and 1st, asparagus. -Mr. W. E. Dixon, Beverley.-lst for twelve va- riegated and ornamental foliaged plants; 2nd, six varieties of stove or ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... amongst them. W RtiiBDY FRUIT AND - KITcHEN GADDEN.-Asparagus as bed, in full cutting, i. e., in their prime, may have every shoot cut away until the middle of June. Sprue, or y very small asparagus may however be permitted to grow. This Will t the ...

THE FLOWER SHOW AT THE CORN EXCHANGE

... Deudrocinus, Epidendrous, Ltolias, Anguloas, &e. &e., very tastefully arranged with palms, and fiue feathery foliage of Asparagus plumosum. In tleo comlpeting elasscs thero was a fairly good array of greenhouse and stove plants; in the class for six varieties ...

Literature

... lani. The kDife,' I mused, the Tories wiehl Is keener than the winds of May. Just then a bill these words revealed: 1 Asparagus Is cheap to-day. Like one transfixed I stood, and read 't'hat notice iu a fruit-shop hung; Grim sorrow flapped her wingi ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... caybo, are other instances of similar nature to the Pitch Lake.-T'he Argonaguf for Judy. ASPARAGus.-Both the Greeks and the earlier Romans applied the term asparagus to the octsjl many plaits, and not merely to one botanical spseic! They probably ate it ...

THE GARDEN

... trcnbhing of ground as it becomes vacant, :end during the prevel- once of dry wyeather keep it eell forked. The young plants of asparagu.s xwill now bee ready fur planting in beds, which it is hopedl hive been kept well prepared ; let the roots be c:irefully ...

NEW MUSIC

... the Nord has discovered a new mode of restoring exhausted asparagus beds. He spread during the spring 1201b. weight of common salt over a piece of ground thirty feet long by six wide. The asparagus plants, though old and exhausted, produced a crop double ...

Published: Sunday 17 December 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1160 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture