. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . hly esteemedby those who are accustomed to its use. It may be grownwith success in any good corn land, but is worthy of the bestof care, as it responds readily to rich manure and high culti-vation. On sandy loam the crop is much earlier than on claysoils; wet land is not suited to it. Propagation.—It grows readily from seed, and one ounce ofseed is sufficient for about fifty feet of drill and should pro-duce with good care about four hundred plants, though noparticular care is necessary for success. The s
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . hly esteemedby those who are accustomed to its use. It may be grownwith success in any good corn land, but is worthy of the bestof care, as it responds readily to rich manure and high culti-vation. On sandy loam the crop is much earlier than on claysoils; wet land is not suited to it. Propagation.—It grows readily from seed, and one ounce ofseed is sufficient for about fifty feet of drill and should pro-duce with good care about four hundred plants, though noparticular care is necessary for success. The seed should besown in good soil early in the spring, in drills which maybe as close as sixteen inches, and it should be covered aboutone inch deep. As asparagus seed starts slowly, it is a goodplan to sow radishes or other early appearing crops with it,so that the rows may be seen and weeding commenced practice does not interfere with the growth of the aspara-gus as the radishes will be ready for use and out of the waybefore it needs much room. The seedling asparagus toots. 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 fa
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