. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. ASPARAGUS CULTURE. 503 â when grown among the vines, say at a distance of about a yard apart. The little trenches are about a foot wide and eight inches below the level of the groundâlooking deeper, however, from the soil being piled up. The young plants are placed in these trenches very care- fully. A little mound is made with the hand in each spot where a plant is to be placed so as to elevate the crown a little and permit o
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. ASPARAGUS CULTURE. 503 â when grown among the vines, say at a distance of about a yard apart. The little trenches are about a foot wide and eight inches below the level of the groundâlooking deeper, however, from the soil being piled up. The young plants are placed in these trenches very care- fully. A little mound is made with the hand in each spot where a plant is to be placed so as to elevate the crown a little and permit of the spreading out of the roots in a per- fectly safe manner. In fact they seem to be about as par- ticular as regards depositing the young plants in the first instance, as a good grape-grower i3 about his young vines. They plant in March and Aprilâusing any kind of manure that can be had, but chiefly here, so far as I could see, the refuse of the townâthe ashes, old vegetables, rags, and other Fia-294- matters, that the people throw ^£ *â¢*^~ before their doors, and which the dust-carts take away in the morning. They are very par- ticular to destroy the weeds, and they also take good care to This figure sll0W3 the depth of &a destroy all sorts of insect successive annual earthings givea ., . to the Asparagus. After four or enemies in the mornings, espe- five years' growth the ridges dis- ciallv during the early summer. appear, and the highest points of _," .-it /.. the grounds are those over the Between the lines of Asparagus cr0Wns of the roots, they plant small growing crops on the little ridges during the first years of the plantation, but are careful not to put the large vegetables there, which would shade and otherwise injure the plant. When they plant they spread a handful or so of well-rotted manure over each root, and they repeat this every year, removing the soil very carefully in the autumn down to the roots, putting on them a couple of handfuls of
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