. 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; cbk. 6o 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 sucee>s it is
. 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; cbk. 6o 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 sucee>s it is an excellent plan to draw up little hills of soil in the bottom of the. FIG. IS—CROSS-SECTION OF ASPARAGUS BED AFTER trench over which to place the roots with the crowns resting on the to]), 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); Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC. New York : Orange Judd
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