... ASPARAGUS. Personally. I do not consider asparagus is at all a suitable crop for the average allotment and small garden, but as I am constantly receiving queries from readers as to how it is grown, a word or two may well be given about it this week. First ...

... ASPARAGUS seed can be sown in the Spring, but it is ter. eral years before cutting commences. The beds are usually made by transplanting, late in March, three-yeareld plants. It is not usually grown on allotments as one needs a long ten• ancy to reap ...

... ASPARAGUS. Th. Town Clerk reported in regard to the condi ;tined tinned asparagus. in which he said lie 11;141 reputed the matter time ago, in which the articles referred to were condemned i Magistrate's Order. The matter had before the Health Committee ...

... ASPARAGUS. Asparagus beds should be cleaned a, pricked over lightly with • fork, and topdres•ed with good farm rostiure or seaweed. ...

... Treatment of Asparagus The cutting of asparagus should by now have been discontinued, otherwise next year’s yield will be adversely affected. Weed the beds thoroughly, and give a final application of agricultural salt. If the crop is growing on very light ...

... THE BED OF ASPARAGUS. ~ More apace might well be given the thardy perenniulg edibles—seakale, the Globe artichoke, rhubarb and asparagus. They flourish in rougher soil than will ‘annual crops, and because the crop is ‘started from plants instead of seeds ...

... ASPARAGUS SOUP. The water in which the asparagus is cooked is the basis of this soup. Strain it into a large saucepan and bring it to the boil. Wash a teacupful of rice and a good handful of sorrel leaves, or, if you have not sorrel. spinach, Place the ...

... THE TINNED ASPARAGUS. The summons against the International for selling tinned asparagus, which had grains of tin per lb., was adjourned on Frio*** sine die that a third sample could analysed, and, if necessary, the Governrn could take proceedings against ...

... The Asparagus Bed. Asparagus plants may now be put in a prepared bed, and fortunate is the gardener who lives by the seashore. This plant never does better than when given about a foot of sea sand for the top soil, and when the ground can be manured with ...

... The Asparagus Bed. - - Gardeners who are considering the laying down of an asparagus bed should now begin to prepare the e. First the ground should be trenched three feet deep. and hea‘ily manured, but unless the subsoil is good it should not be brought ...

... ASPARAGUS BEDS Directly the growths have ripened, it becomes necessary rut them down to within an inch'or of the ground and to bnrn them. It this is not done, the seeds will ri|>en and drop the foliage, and cause nuisance next year by germinating between ...

... ASPARAGUS ROLLS. Cut the tops from small dinner rolls, scoop out the soft pert, and place the rolls in the oven crisp. Warm the green part some cooked asparagus in gill of white sauce, add the besten yolk of an egg and stir over the fire until the egg ...