. Catalogue for 1897 of seeds and implements. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. SEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. CADWELL & JONES, Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of SELECT VEGETABLE, FLOWER AND FARM SEEDS, Agricultural and Horticultural Implements, Etc. 1897. IJ3^~PEEASE OBSERVE THAT PRICES herein quoted include postage on ALE SEEDSF by the packet, ounce, and pound, EXCEPT GRASS SEEDS, ONION SETS, CORN, PEAS and) BEANS, which will require 15 cents per quart, 8 cents per pint, extra; if ordered to b
. Catalogue for 1897 of seeds and implements. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. SEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. CADWELL & JONES, Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of SELECT VEGETABLE, FLOWER AND FARM SEEDS, Agricultural and Horticultural Implements, Etc. 1897. IJ3^~PEEASE OBSERVE THAT PRICES herein quoted include postage on ALE SEEDSF by the packet, ounce, and pound, EXCEPT GRASS SEEDS, ONION SETS, CORN, PEAS and) BEANS, which will require 15 cents per quart, 8 cents per pint, extra; if ordered to be senfe by mail. N. B.—Half pecks, and half bushels, will rates, and quarter pound at pound rates. furnished at peck and bushel ASPARAGUS, ©pargel. One ounce of seed sows forty feet of drill. Asparagus can be grown from seed or propagated from roots. Sow the seed ire April or May on good soil in drills twelve to fourteen inches apait. When one or two years old, transplant as early in the spring as the ground can be worked into permanent beds, made very- rich and thoroughly trenched two feet or more in depth. Set the plants in rows two feet apart and twelve inches between the plants in the row. Care should be taken that the roots are well spread and set at a depth of six inches below the level of the bed. Cover only two or three inches and fill in gradually as the plants grow. Very little, if any, should be cut the first year after transplanting but a fair crop can be cut the second year. Every fall after the tops have been cut down apply a dressing of coarse manure, and in the spring fork it in. An occasional top dressing of salt is alsa beneficial and keeps down the weeds. Palmetto Asparagus. Columbian Mammoth White. The stalks are very large, produced abundantly and very early. They are clear white and remain go as long as fit for use, without earthing up or any other artificial blanching, Donald's Elmira. Stalks a bright green color, of mammoth size, tender and succulent,
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