. Money in the garden : a vegetable manual, prepared with a view to economy and profit . Vegetable gardening. ASPAEAGTT8. 43 price than that which comes in late in the season. There- fore every advantage from location, character of soil and treatment, must be tak- en into consideration by those who cultivate for profit. When the plants are set so that they have about nine inches of covering at the end of the third year from the time of planting, the crowns will be within seven inches of the surface. At this depth the beds may be ploughed with a one-horse plough in the Spring, and the spaces be
. Money in the garden : a vegetable manual, prepared with a view to economy and profit . Vegetable gardening. ASPAEAGTT8. 43 price than that which comes in late in the season. There- fore every advantage from location, character of soil and treatment, must be tak- en into consideration by those who cultivate for profit. When the plants are set so that they have about nine inches of covering at the end of the third year from the time of planting, the crowns will be within seven inches of the surface. At this depth the beds may be ploughed with a one-horse plough in the Spring, and the spaces between the rows kept clean by a cultivator during the rest of the sea- son. In garden-culture the " crowns " need only be cov- ered four or five inches. This will save considerable in the labor of working an Asparagus-bed over the old method of diggingthe whole surface every Spring, and doing most of the work with the hand-hoe during the conover's Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Quinn, Patrick T. , 1838-. New York : Orange Judd
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