... ASPARAGUS. If all weeds and dead stems are cleared away a layer of decayed manure placed on the beds will form a good winter dressing. The virtues in the manure will be washed into the soil to the benefit of the Asparagus roots. ...

... ASPARAGUS BEDS. Early English Asparagus always eagerly sought after, and in the majority of gardens there is generally, at least, one small bed. Many mysterious waterings and dressings are given with the object of securing early plump grass.” There is ...

... ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. For greenhouse and conservatory decoration, few plants are more beautiful on account of their foliags than Asparagus, plumosus; indeed, so popular hat it become that many who have to supply table decoration now use in preference to ...

... WIRY ASPARAGUS. I was asked the other day what was the cause the asparagus on bed coming up so weak and spindly. One cause was the beds were very old ; but that was not the chief reason, as I know a garden where the asparagus-beds are at least 50 years ...

... A IN OPERATIONS. (From. the Oarderer’s Magazine.”) KITCHEN GARDEN. Vegetables tit Season —Asparagus, beet, hmasels sprouts, tops of buda, Jerusalem, and green curled kales, carrots, oelery, coleworts, endive, French beans, Jermalem artichokes, lettuce ...

... summer, that is the season when the crowns for the next, year’s Grass, ate built up. Many Asparagus growers have given up the old narrow bed system, and trea* Asparagus like any other crop. Cultivate the land well and plant rows 3ft. or so apart. I have had ...

... borders and frames, endive and lettuce; from the forcing pit and mushroom house, asparagus, carrot, cucumbers, mushrooms, mint, potatoes, radishes, rhubarb, and scakale. Asparagus and Seakalc. —This is the best time in the whole year to sow, where new beds ...

... about three inches of fine light rich soil. Where white asparagus is desired a greater depth soil will be necessary; but the flavour of green asparagus is superior to that of white. When asparagus is forced in this way it does not require much water, as ...

... From tho forcing pit and mushroom house may be obtained supplies of asparagus, French beans, mushrooms, now potatoes, scakale, small salading, radishes, rhubarb, and tomatoes. Asparagus beds to lightly pointed over, and dressed with salt the rate of a pound ...

... FRAME GROUND. Forcing must bo continued with lettuce, mint, asparagus, and potatoes. Many of tho complaints of failure which roach us are attributable to high temperatures. All sources of heat that are under full control, such hot water and flues, admit ...

... ojit«r flavour. It may be treated in the same way. Thoee who are thinking of •owing Asparagus Seakale should lose no time. New beds can also be made with roots, as Asparagus is frequently planted now in rows 3ft. apart and 15in. apart in the rows. Sometimes ...

... plant, which grows through the neck. Asparagus grown this way is not coarse and insipid like much giant asparagus that is forced, but delicate and tender the thin green wild variety or the ordinary garden asparagus. Db. Ohsi has discovered, after long ...