. Asparagus : its culture for home use and for market : a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany. Asparagus. 60 ASPARAGUS center and the rootlets spread out evenly and horizon- tally, like the spokes of a wheel, and at once covered with three inches of fine, mellow soil, which is pressed around them. If the ground is dry at planting-time it should be pressed down quite firmly about the roots, so as to prevent their drying out, and to hasten their growth. To still more insure success it is an exce
. Asparagus : its culture for home use and for market : a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany. Asparagus. 60 ASPARAGUS center and the rootlets spread out evenly and horizon- tally, like the spokes of a wheel, and at once covered with three inches of fine, mellow soil, which is pressed around them. If the ground is dry at planting-time it should be pressed down quite firmly about the roots, so as to prevent their drying out, and to hasten their growth. To still more insure success it is an excellent plan to draw up little hills of soil in the bottom of the. FIG. l8—CROSS-SECTION OF ASPARAGUS BED AFTER PLANTING trench over which to place the roots with the crowns resting on the top, thus raising the crowns a few inches above the extremities of the roots and providing for them a position similar to what they stood in before transplanting, as seen in Fig. 17. The subsequent covering of the roots can usually be done with a one-horse plow, from which the mold- board has been removed, passing down the sides of the row. This leaves the plants in a depression, the soil thrown out in opening the rows forming a ridge on each side, as shown in Fig. 18. This depression will gradually become filled during the process of cultiva- tion the succeeding Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hexamer, F. M. (Fred Maier). New York : Orange Judd
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