... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the rule to make asparagus beds-thatr is, in the form in which they were known to past days, and even still furnish many examples. Probably no more elaborate nonsense was ever written about the cultivation of any plant tihan of asparagus, for writers held ...

... when in a large garden with the admirable foresight -shown by the gardeuer -in -the matter of obtaining a regular supply of asparagus, a vegetable that may, perbhps, -be sorerwb ltbo scarce and costly for general consumption, but -which :i, in good oil, an ...

... should be care- fully weeded. If two plants arise from the same hole, the weaker of the two should be reuseved. Sometimes asparagus is suffered to remain in the bed where it has been sown, and at other times it is tranepLhnted. This operation is performed ...

... point of starvation before tl W' will venture on themu Be sure to salt all asparagus ax t seakalc-bedt-little and iten is best. The time is ap proaching for planting aspAragus; it should not be put in until six or eight inches high. Continue to protect ...

... seem to have been good enough, so the caterers set to work to get something very special, and this is how they did it:- Asparagus, at 4s. 6d. per bunch. Twenty-two pints of peas, at 2s. 6d. par pint. Eight pines, at 12s. 6d. each. Six melons, at 10s. ...

... manured land, and attend to these and all other newly-planted things with water until they get fairly eEta- blished. Give the asparagus plenty, of water from the stable or farm-yard tank, in order to strengthen the roots after cutting and induce strong growth ...

... be any forms of asparagos worthy of growing in greenhouses, but we have several varieties, of which the best, perhaps, is asparagus plumosus nanus, the which is a dwarfish form of plumosus, and a charming plant for decorative purposes. There is a sort of ...

... select the strongest runners and plant them on a shady border in rich soil, to be transplanted with balls early next month. Asparagus beds can hardly have too much manure-water fromi the stable or farmyard-tank during the present month. On dry friable-soils ...

... their heasc~ inclining tow~ards' the norbh, to.be' protectedf with their- stra ormat infrot. lear the grondocrpaste ?? and asparagus for fiirciug Later crops of rhubalrb 'may be. fored n he-opn 'roud her i grai,' using potgor boxces fr-~elgtecon, n evs rlae ...