... Asparagus. Asparagus roots may be forced in heated brick pita, or hotbeds made up chiefly of Oak or Beech leavaa to which stable-dung may be added, to ensure readier fermentation. Ureatcr care is necessary with fermenting material than with hot-water ...

... Asparagus. Cutting should be discontinued at once, even if this has not already been done. It is best to cut all the shoots, both large and small, to a certain date, and then cease entirely, lotting the rest grow on unchecked. very numerous, however, ...

... Asparagus. It will now be question with'many Mop the removal of shoots from the plants. The exact time will depend on the part of the country; in tki south, the middle of the present month ia lata enough, and certainly no more cutting should be done if ...

... Asparagus. Where home-grown roots ore required for forcing. is necessary to sow seeds annually, and April is the most suitable month for sowing, says a writer in Hardening Illustrated. Some gardeners sow the seed and allow the plants to remain after thinning ...

... Asparagus, Planting is best done towards the end of March or early in April, just as growth is getting active, setting out the plants Ift. apart in rows running north and south 2ft. asunder, taking the precaution that the roots are not allowed to get ...

... Asparagus Plants in the seed bed should thinned out to distances of 4in. to 6in. apart, and the surface the ground thould kept frequently stirred. Seeds may still sown, if by any (banco the operation has been neglected, eeeds have failed germinate. The ...

... Forcing Asparagus. Thb roots will now force more readily, especially those which have been prepared for this purpose, and whose tops ripened off early. The late frosts will have induced a more perfect state of rest if the crowns i*re exposed the air. ...

... Asparagus in Autumn. Weeds at this season, owing to the dense nature of the summer growth, are apt to overrun the Asparagus-bed, but when the stems can be cut down it is easy get at them. These weeds are best hoed off and cleared away, and if dry weather ...

... to come to the point, and that is, cultivate asparagus to the highest state of perfection at the lowest charges. Let heap of manure, equal layer of nine inches deep, all over the ground intended for asparagus, be prepared of the following muterials:—One-third ...

... Forcino Asparagus. This is not at all a difficult matter, provided only that one has plenty of good fermenting materials (fresh stable manure, leaves, &k), one or more stout garden rames, with glazed sashes, ami number of robust four-year or five-year-old ...

... - Asparagus and Sbakale. Asparagus should have decayed manure put on the rain to wash in its properties cannot get this, apply artificial supplied by any good seedsma* March or April give a coating the soil of common salt. This is a Asparagus, and also ...

... Forcing Asparagus. This delicious esculent requires much more heat to it at this season than either rhubarb seakale, and in other ways is much more costly when so treated, as the roots must have been grown for four or five years previously without being ...