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... having a new husband Her room was full of the loveliest spring flowers and there were some practical offerings of fruit and asparagus too, which would be greatly enjoyed the next day, she explained, as first-night anxiety is not conducive to a good appetite ...
... the present, of Delibes' Coppelia, which was given in its entirety. Ballets about dolls and toyshops are as plentiful as asparagus in the present month, but this is the best of them. The delicious music (ably conducted by Mr. Constant Lambert, who allowed ...
... fireproof porcelain which they have appropriately named Evesham. Decorated with pears, apples, blackcurrants, cherries, asparagus, plums, black berries, and so on, all in their natural colours, the porcelain is guaranteed against oven breakages and does ...
... orchard and greenhouse. Income from fruit and grasskeep could balance outgoings. Rhododendrons, azaleas, strawberries, asparagus beds and many bulbs. FREEHOLD WITH 6 i ACRES £7,777 Owner's Agents: Harrods Ltd., 32, 34 and 36, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge ...
... Christmas cake. What about some dried turtle from Jamaica at a guinea a pound or real turtle soup at 6s. and us. 6d. a can Asparagus is 12s. 6d. a jar. Peaches in gin cost 20s. or 45s., in champagne 35s. 6d., or muscat grapes in cognac 21s. If you fancy ...
... fresh article (gathered from the garden and served within an hour or so is a different matter), whereas strawberries and asparagus are at the other end of the scale, tasting hopeless beside the real McCoy. Then there are sardines. anchovies and tunny ...
... rust fungi attacking cultivated crops such as cereals or asparagus cause con siderable losses by weakening the wheat and barley plants so that the yield is reduced or, in the case of asparagus, spoiling the ap pearance of the crop and its market value ...
... continued with successive batches until the outdoor crop-- also slightly forced by moderate covering is ready. Seakale and Asparagus An equally popular crop which also lends itself well to forcing treatment is seakale 1 hree-year-old crowns are best for ...
... leaves. Asparagus beds should be cleared of weed seedlings and given a dressing of agricultural salt (2 oz. per sq. yard). After the alleys have been forked over they may be planted with cauliflowers raised in the greenhouse or in frames. Asparagus is a ...
... to bore, and experts. NEW LEA7.E FRENCH GARDENS, Olveston near Bristol. Donald Roberts and Ronald Vizard hoe one-year-old asparagus beneath a lowering sky. ROTAVATOR behind a Ferguson, in Major Howell's opinion, does a most satisfactory job at a fast rate ...
... the same treatment as the ordinary culinary pea the haulm grows about 3 ft. high. From the point of view of novelty, the asparagus pea grown and used in the same way as the sugar pea might also be considered but both the pods and the yield are so small ...
... alkalinity pn Crop. preference. French and Runner beans Peas 6.0 7.5 and Beet Carrot, Celery, Cucumber 5.5 7.0 Potato 5.0 5.5 Asparagus and Leek 6.0 8.0 Lettuce 6.0 7.0 Tomato 5.5 7.5 Chrysanthemum 6.0 6.5 Carnation 6.5 7.5 Hydrangea (blue) 4.5 5.0 Hydrangea ...