Farquhar's garden annual : 1918 . Globe Artichoke. May delivery Per doz., $ Jerusalem. {Helianthus tubemsus.) Cultivated for its edible tubers. Tubers, qt., 30 cts.; peck, $ ASPARAGUS. Esparrago, (Sp.) Culture. Sow the seeds thinly in drills one foot apart and one inch deep. The per-manent bed should be trenched very deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly de-cayed manure. Wide drills should then be made, 3 feet apart, and deep enough to admitof the top of the plants being covered 6 inches. Set the plants, one or two years old, 12inches apart in the rows, carefully spreading out
Farquhar's garden annual : 1918 . Globe Artichoke. May delivery Per doz., $ Jerusalem. {Helianthus tubemsus.) Cultivated for its edible tubers. Tubers, qt., 30 cts.; peck, $ ASPARAGUS. Esparrago, (Sp.) Culture. Sow the seeds thinly in drills one foot apart and one inch deep. The per-manent bed should be trenched very deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly de-cayed manure. Wide drills should then be made, 3 feet apart, and deep enough to admitof the top of the plants being covered 6 inches. Set the plants, one or two years old, 12inches apart in the rows, carefully spreading out and separating the roots. For the sakeof convenience one drill should be made at a time, and the planting and covering completed before another is commenced. InNovember the plants should have theirannual top dressing of manure afterthe stalks have been cleared -dressing should be forked inas soon as the ground can beworked in Spring, and the bedneatly raked. One mince ofseed sows 60 feet of drill;5 pounds sow one
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