. Agriculture for beginners. first season. With the coming of cold weather, the aspar-agus must again be freely manured and all dead tops cutoff. Some plants will be ready for market the secondspring. If the bed is kept free from weeds and wellmanured, it will increase in productiveness from year toyear. V .•• 9HHH^^^^^H . jH M^^^l^^^l w\ ^PflFfM H^tr_« ^--i r ■■&^.^-^^Jf^ll fcJ*^ wM KP^ JH^^^ ^/^^JB tl -^•*~=««™ f^WHR! PIpMBIHnHnRnH^^H )» ■ f.^^^^^^^^H ii-1 ■■^■■■■Jl^l Fig. 224. A Crate of Asparagus 258 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS Beans. The most generally planted beans are thoseknown as string
. Agriculture for beginners. first season. With the coming of cold weather, the aspar-agus must again be freely manured and all dead tops cutoff. Some plants will be ready for market the secondspring. If the bed is kept free from weeds and wellmanured, it will increase in productiveness from year toyear. V .•• 9HHH^^^^^H . jH M^^^l^^^l w\ ^PflFfM H^tr_« ^--i r ■■&^.^-^^Jf^ll fcJ*^ wM KP^ JH^^^ ^/^^JB tl -^•*~=««™ f^WHR! PIpMBIHnHnRnH^^H )» ■ f.^^^^^^^^H ii-1 ■■^■■■■Jl^l Fig. 224. A Crate of Asparagus 258 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS Beans. The most generally planted beans are thoseknown as string or snap beans. Of the many varieties,all are sensitive to cold, and hence must not be planteduntil frost is over. Another widely grown kind of bean is the lima orbutter bean. There are two varieties of the lima bean. One is large andgrows generallyon poles. Thiskind does best inthe NorthernStates. Theother is a smallbean and may begrown withoutthe use of kind is bestsuited to the. Fig. 225. Ready fur Shipment warmer climates of the Southern States. Cabbage. In comparatively warm climates, the firstcrop of cabbage is generally grown in the following seeds are sowed in beds in September, and the plantsgrown from this sowing are in November transplanted toground laid off in sharp ridges. The young plants, inorder that they may be somewhat protected from the coldof winter, are set on the south side of the ridges. Asspring approaches the ridge is cut down at each workinguntil the field is leveled. Early cabbages need heavy applications of manure. Inthe spring, nitrate of soda applied in the rows is veryhelpful. HORTICULTURE 259 Seeds for the crop following this early crop should besowed in March. Of course these seeds should be of alater variety than the first used. The young plants shouldbe transplanted as soon as they are large enough. Earlycabbages are set in rows three feet apart, and the plantsare set eighteen inches apart in th
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