. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . Figfure 49.—Asparag-us plant full grown. but in many plantsthe pistils are abor-tive, so that onlyabout half of theplants produce seed is producedin spherical berries,that are vermilionin color when theyripen in the seeds are blackand triangular, num-bering about 1400 tothe ounce. Asparagusis one of the mostvaluable garden veg-etables. It is per-fectly hardy, never 116 VEGETABLE GARDENING. will be large enough for transplanting to the permanentplantation when one year old, and it is th
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . Figfure 49.—Asparag-us plant full grown. but in many plantsthe pistils are abor-tive, so that onlyabout half of theplants produce seed is producedin spherical berries,that are vermilionin color when theyripen in the seeds are blackand triangular, num-bering about 1400 tothe ounce. Asparagusis one of the mostvaluable garden veg-etables. It is per-fectly hardy, never 116 VEGETABLE GARDENING. will be large enough for transplanting to the permanentplantation when one year old, and it is the best plan to do so,but they may be allowed to stand two years in the seed young seedling plants which often come up in or neaiasparagus beds may be transplanted in July of the first yeardirectly to the permanent bed and will do very well if handledcarefuiiy. At whatever age they are transplanted the plantsshould be dug and set out in the spring or early summer, asthey are likely to fail when removed in the autumn. Aspar-. Figure 50.—Asparagus root with edible shoots. agus may be increased by dividing the crowns, but this is anexpensive process, and plants so grown have no peculiar meritover those from seed. By buying the plants instead of sow-ing the seed to start with, one or two years time may be saved,and frequently it is cheaper to buy the plants than to raisethem. It is said that plants that do not bear seed produce ASPARAGUS. 117 more sprouts than those that do. Such plants may be increasedby divisions. Planting.—While asparagus should always be moved inthe spring, it is not necessary to move it very early, thoughit is better to do so; but it may be successfully transplanted aslate as the first of June. Any long sprouts that may havestarted should be broken off when the plants are set land for planting should be heavily manured, deeplyplowed and finely pulverized, and it is important to do thiswork well, as asparagus beds well made should last at l
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