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By planting a late variety such as Late Purple Argenteuil, which, 
while not much later in appearing in the spring, bears much longer than 
the early varieties, or by treatment inducing a second growth during 
the summer (which is, however, rather exhausting to the crowns), natu- 
rally grown asparagus can be produced for market until midsummer. 
In addition to 
ma this, by forcing the 
Ny iN RIO 1S OI beds or the roots 
( AN removed from the 
MW beds to hothouses, 
asparagus can be 
supplied continu- 
ously from Decem- 
| ae ber until early 
—a ae spring, when the 
/ ste - ZZ A open beds begin 
| again to produce. 
In Europe, ow- 
ing to the trend of 
the country, the season of fresh asparagus is much shorter than in this 
country, and for that reason, perhaps, forcing has been more widely 
practiced. 
The London market has been a great consumer of the forced article, 
and the local market gardeners are largely engaged in supplying the 
demand. But this 
business is by no 
means more exten- 
sively followed by 
the London than by 
the continental gar- 
deners. As an ex- 
ample of the exten- 
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Fig. 8.—Four bunches prime white asparagus (8! inches long, averaging 
30 spears to the bunch, weight 2 pounds). 




siveness of this in- HHS XY ip WY MR | 
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dustry in France, _ |i» a EE eC 
reference is made to 
one farm at Saint- 
Ouen, on which 67 
acres are devoted Fic. 9.—End view of three of the four bunches of prime white asparagus 
to growing aspara- shown in fig. 8. 
gus crowns to be 
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forced for the winter market, and there are numerous growers en- 
gaged in supplying the Paris demand for hothouse asparagus. This 
industry is also extensively carried on near the large cities of the 
United States, among which Boston is perhaps the best market for 
forced asparagus, 
