. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. Fig. 2.—Normand Bunclier. blishments for forcing it imder glass; these two sources aresupplemented by that put up in cans, of which large quan-tities are preserved for home use and for exportation. Fromone or another of these those who can afford it can enjojAsparagus all the year round. The number of these bunchers. Fig 3.—Snrlroaville Banchor (empty). at home and abroad show that the necessity for puttingup Asparagus in neat bunches is generally recognized ; if unyone doubts that careful bunching pays, lot him sen
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. Fig. 2.—Normand Bunclier. blishments for forcing it imder glass; these two sources aresupplemented by that put up in cans, of which large quan-tities are preserved for home use and for exportation. Fromone or another of these those who can afford it can enjojAsparagus all the year round. The number of these bunchers. Fig 3.—Snrlroaville Banchor (empty). at home and abroad show that the necessity for puttingup Asparagus in neat bunches is generally recognized ; if unyone doubts that careful bunching pays, lot him send to marketloose shoots, or even bunches carelessly put up, with unevenends and buts, and he will be fully convinced that when hehas raised the crop he has accomplished only one step towardsturning it into money. In regard to the size of the bunches, that differs with the season ; the length is 8 in. or 9 in., andthe diameter through the centre from 4 in. for early Asparagus,to 5 in. for that which comes in later. In the French marketswhere articles are often purchased in small quantities, thelarge bunches are divided to make half and quarter bunches,and the marketmen have bunchers for doing this. Fig. 1shows the oldest of the French bunchers ; it consists of twopairs of wooden scissors with curved blades; to each shortarm of one of these is fixed a wooden rod, which passesthrough a h
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