280 APRIL. 



apart, so that a cultivator can run between them. 

 In the fall the bed should be mowed off, and 

 those tops that are not full of seed make an 

 excellent covering for such hardy plants as 

 require but slight protection. Cover the bed if 

 small, or the rows if large, with three inches of 

 manure, before hard freezing weather com- 

 mences in fall, and your asparagus so treated 

 will not fail to give good satisfaction. It is a 

 vegetable that always sells, and I doubt if the 

 market ever will be overstocked. 



Perhaps there is no crop that the possessor of 

 a garden near a small local market could grow 

 with greater prospects of success than this, if he 

 has the patience to put it out in the right way 

 and take good care of it. Being in itself such a 

 favorite, and coming when there is so little 

 variety for the table, it always sells high. It 

 will adapt itself to any soil that is well enriched 

 and kept so, and when treated in accordance 



