... ASPARAGUS. The dry weather the past three weeks has not tended to succulence in the shoots, and no rain falls before these notes appear, it will be advisable to afford tho beds a thorough application water, and manure-water from stables and cowsheds may ...

... ASPARAGUS CULTURE. A plastic oily is not precisoly an ideal moil for this delicate and popular vegetable, which ought to be much more extensively grown for market than is the case. Asparagus prefers a sandy soil. well supplied with food in the form of ...

... FORCING ASPARAGUS, 4-year or older roots try dug late in autumn and stored its .1 cold cedar or she.l under a owerirg of straw or cocoanut fibre until wanted. To force, pock the clumps claw together on 2 or 3 inches of earth; covvr ;but inches of lo,se ...

... To COOK ASPARAGUS. Asparagus will be greatly improved in flavour if, after being prepared in the usual way, it is tied in small bundles and allowed to lie in cold water for half-an-hour before cooking. An asparagus conker can he contrived in an emergency ...

... FORUM) ASPARAGUS. hotbed, and if there is a deep pit in which to place the manure and leaves for bottom heat with hot water pipes as well, so much the better. In this way there is less trouble in considerably prolonging its season of usefulness. Plante ...

... then called upon him to produce it therefrom. To my horror he held up a bundle of asparagus in one hand and two pennies in the other, loudly informing me that the asparagus cost as. 4d., and that the twopence was change ! He had taken me literally. THE ...

... weather is must beneficial if followed by a heavy watang. On the proper and liberal manuring of asparagus its permanency largely depends. Where asparagus is requ red in a 'short time, plants should be put in towards the enfi of March or in early April ...

... Deeehasnpe ties added asparagus to this long list. He has published a full clinical report of a victualler over 40 years of age. who suffers from severe spasmodic attacks of coughing whenever he attempts to prepare raw asparagus for the cook. He is arthritic ...

... Eugene Deschamps has added asparagus to this long list. He has published a full clinical report of a victualler over 40 years of age. who suffers from severe spasmodic attacks of coughing whenever he attempts to prepare raw asparagus for the cook. He is arthritic ...

... TRAILING YOUR KITCHEN GARDEN SOME NOTES ON ASPARAGUS Now is the time to prepare a site for the mid-spring bedding of asparagus. There are two methods of cultivation—the raised bed and the flat bed. The asparagus crowns are susceptible to wet soil. So a ...

... Tue cultivation of asparagus at Argenteuil, in the vicinity of Paris. is an industry representing a turnover or two million francs yearly. About 10,000 tons are despatched from Argenteuil and district during the season, which lasts from the middle of ...

... HOME HINTS. Asparagus on Toast.--Scrape the stems, be • ginning at the heads, and sash well in cold water; tie them in bundles of about two dozen each, keeping the heads all in the one direction, and cut the stalks evenly. Throw into fart briling salted ...