THE 



FORCING GARDENER. 



CHAPTER I. 



ASPARAGUS. 



THIS delicious and wholefome vege- 

 table being required in moft fami- 

 lies at an early feafon, the forcing of it is 

 pretty generally underftood j yet, for the 

 fake of thofe who may not have had an 

 opportunity of feeing the common me- 

 thods pradifed, and on account of fome 

 fuccefsful experiments, made in this branch 

 of forcing, I hope what I have to advance 

 on the fubjecl will be acceptable and ufe- 

 ful to my readers. 



WHERE there is not the conveniency of 

 a forcing pit, (See Plate I. Fig. i.) a frame 

 and lights, fuch as is ufed for melons, muft 

 be employed : but I have found by expe- 

 rience, that a flued pit is much to be pre- 

 ferred ; as in it the grafs may be produ- 

 ced 



