Asparagus 



feeder and an additional application of coarse 

 ground bone in each hill is well worth while as 

 it furnishes food for two or three years inde- 

 pendently of such annual di'essing as the bed may 

 receive. 



For garden culture where hand cultivation is 

 to be practised, the plants may be set in hills 

 two or three feet apart each way, leaving room 

 to cultivate between each way for the first few 

 years. Two year old roots are the best to use 

 and in planting a little mound of earth should 

 be made in each hill, the roots of the plant spread 

 out around this so that the earth will fit in be- 

 neath, close to the under side of the crown, then 

 the earth should be firmed about the roots, a 

 handful of bone meal sprinkled over the soil and 

 the remainder of the soil filled in. Asparagus 

 beds may be set in spring or fall; good results 

 follow either setting. The asparagus bed must 

 be kept free of weeds and grass from the start 

 as once allowed to become infested with foul seed 

 and grass it is a very discouraging proposition. 

 One of the worst weeds to combat is the young 



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