... to spoil it in the cooking whereas green asparagus requires Borne little skill and watchfulness to send to table in a creditable manner There is just the same difference in cooking white and green asparagus as there in cooking a waxy potato which neither ...

... Scarlet Runners for a first planting, early supply. They will fortnight tamer fruit tl th'»se3ownin the open ground. cutting Asparagus, take only the strongest ch'oots. Give plenty wa'er and Weak liquid manure. Transplantl/oin sited-beds as fast trie young ...

... SOMETHING ABOUT ASPARAGUS. Trench paper gives some seasonable information with regard to asparagus. This vegetable grows wild in France, and may even now bs gathered in the Bois de Viocennes and other French forests. The wild asparagus is long, thin, and ...

... President Grant ever made was following:—A talkative waiter recently said to him— We have potatoes, parsley, onioDs, tomatoes, asparagus, beets, spring chickens, strawberries Stop, 'top, stop! exclaimed the President, let have '. so pleased with this that ...

... give them both, and the result will be perfect finishing and good flavour. Forcing to prepared for according the demand for asparagus, seakale, rhubarb, &c. Take all the roots that are to be used In the first batch, and lay them ln by the heels; the roots ...

... for sowing seeds under cover may push on number of things to be transplanted to open quarters when sufficiently forward. Asparagus to be kept going in the forcing pit fftr succession. Give air and light; if wholly blanched, it is not good ; the sticks ...

... rate of a pound and a half to every square yard. Sow seed for new beds. On cold clays the sod may be greatly improved for asparagus by burning and returning the burnt clay in the proportion of one-foirrth of the whole bulk. But if sand can be had in plenty ...

... their intention of demanding advanced prices for mowing, and the farmers are resorting to the employment of mowing machines. Asparagus as Medical Agent. The Gardener's Magazine says : A medical correspondent, on whose statement can mosi implicitly rely (observes ...

... discussion followed. Count Moltke is said to pursuing military pre» with the greatest activity. The late st cure recommended asparagus eating for the gout and rheumatism. Artichoke does the hke. [There can be harm iv trying ] The strongest swimmer the world ...

... trees in order. Probably amongst the vegetables that have been benefited most by favourable weather we must name peas and asparagus, but celery is remarkably fine, onions are larger and heavier than usual, and winter greens that were planted good time now ...

... pheasant pie, coursed hare, or other equally excellent edibles, according to the season, and nothing out of it. No forced asparagus, no house lamb, and in the centre the table stood always a large wooden bowl, white as milk, filled with the finest potatoes ...

... What has become a potato introduced from Chili some forty years ago by the Royal Horticultural Society It was called the asparagus potato, from the resemblance which its tubers had to the blanched shoots that vesetable. After its Introduction it grew well ...