Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ce two-year-old plants for no great sum. For ourselves,we prefer sowing thick, say this March of 1864, and plantingthem some 3 or 4 inches apart in 1865, when the shoots areabout 2 inches high, and taking means to prevent a root orrootlet from being injured. We think the simplest way forgrowing Asparagus is to trench and dress the ground wellin winter, and before planting time to throw it into shallowridges, say 27 inches apart, level the crest of the ridge alittle, place the roots of the Asparagus over it fan shape,cover with t
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . ce two-year-old plants for no great sum. For ourselves,we prefer sowing thick, say this March of 1864, and plantingthem some 3 or 4 inches apart in 1865, when the shoots areabout 2 inches high, and taking means to prevent a root orrootlet from being injured. We think the simplest way forgrowing Asparagus is to trench and dress the ground wellin winter, and before planting time to throw it into shallowridges, say 27 inches apart, level the crest of the ridge alittle, place the roots of the Asparagus over it fan shape,cover with the soil, water, and then mulch with rotten trying many plans we like this better than beds. Alittle salt and fresh mulching every summer will be sure tobenefit the Asparagus, and there will be little risk of rottingfrom damp. The sooner you break down the ground the better, but golittle beyond the staple. Tou may stir the bottom of thetrench and leave it. The subsoil is best incorporated byonly raising a few inches at a time.] RIVEESS EOYAL We have already (p. 11) recorded our high opinion ofthis variety of the Strawberry; and we return to it for tworeasons, of which the first is that we received a photograph,of which the above is a copy, with the following note rela-tive to the discovery of the variety. I am perfectly charmed with the Eoyal Hautbois Straw-berry; its clusters are enormous, and its fruit discovery was as follows:—In a bed of a thousand seed-Ungs raised from BeUe Bordelaise, and which seemed such amass of foliage as to leave no hope that the shy-bearing sort would give any variety, two large clusters of fr-uit wereespied. The plants were carefully taken up and plantedout as Nos. 1 and 2. The latter failed the next season, andwas bad in character; but No. 1 was so fine that we namedit the Eoyal Hautbois, and well it deserves its name. Our second reason for recurring to the subject will befound in this extract fr-om a little no
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