... ASPARAGUS PLANTS. IN my AMERICAN GARDENER, under the bead, ASPARAGUS, I remarked how fine it was in America, and said I would try it here. I got some seed last year, and sowed it. The plants are very fine. They are fit to go- into beds directly, and I ...

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... their normal and definite size. ASPARAGUS This crop is a good one in 1897, both quantity and quality being satisfactory. The old raised beds of asparagus are being discarded. K The habit is of the remotest antiquity, asparagus having been grown by the Romans ...

... there Is in ordinary market asparagus. It is difleult to give asparagus too much dung, and a slight coaling when-the haulm Is- ?? down and the:earthinglis done, is desdiable. We have often urged gardeners to allow the asparagus to grow two or three Inches ...

... asebes, with the mere dust taken d out of them. Be sure to salt aU asparagus and seakale d beds, little and often is the best way of applying it. The 8 time is approaching for planting asparagus; it should not O be planted until six or eight inches high. As ...

... are specially inteaded to lead the way to the production of finer asparagus in this counitry, and more of it thanhs -hitherto been seen amongst us. The French grow Vhe finest asparagus without doubt, and that effmiency is largely due to their system of ...

... at moderate prices. Green pes and ~asparagus come chiefly from Algeria, and are only accessible to those who do not mind entravagance. There is an enormous difference between the price of Algerian and French asparagus. The former-very fine t look at,-mnay ...

... EmrEROR WILLIAM OF GERAIANY'S FAVOURITE D)IsMt is asparagus, and the Emperor loses no opportunity of partaking of his pet dainty. Lately, however, according to the Amncrica/c Regisler, whenever asparagus has been served at the Berlin Schloss, the Emperor ...

... first mouthful when another vegetable-dish is at his elbow. This time he cannot hesitate, for it is his favourite vegetable, asparagus, which he had specially marked in his menu, and the dinner taking place, as it did, in March, made this, always a delicacy ...

... ? Who, because wild hop and chicory root are sweet for a season, wavers in allegiance to the plentiful pea and aspiring asparagus ? Constancy here is a virtue, since it proves, beyond doubt, its own reward. Novelty, or, now and then, eccentricity, may ...

... cooking of vegetables is not usually a strong Doint in our English kitchenus, and the delicate asparagus suffers, perhaps, more than anything elee. When buying asparagus always choose the crispest bunches; they are the freshest. Cut the stalks into equal lengths ...

... twov or three.feet deep; albo give the asparagus beds their spring dressing, first lightening upahe srfacoe soil, with a blunt-pronged fork an'd clearing the beds' of weeds. Some seat 'of-hea-. sale and asparagus ehould also be sown to-furnish a supply ...