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Asparagus

Asparagus image
Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
May
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A correspondent of Downing's Horticulturist raises shoots of asparagus, whic!) lie says are, without exaggeration as large as his hoe handle, and perfectly tender and shcculent, by this method. One part hen dung to 40 parts of stable manure, ard spread tvvo inches thick, in auluinn, and forked in. The next spiing this is turned over slightly, and a coating of a quarter of an inch of salt added. This disolves by rain, and kills every weed, whilc it promotes a vgiorous growth of Asparagus. He cuts his Asparagu when six inches high, wholly above ground, and then it is perfectly tender.