AMERICAN GARDENER. Ill 



to work : first, sowing the seed in the beds at 

 once; and, second, making the beds, and re- 

 1 moving the plants into them. It is desirable to' 

 have the beds about four feet wide, that you may 

 cut the asparagus by going in the paths between 

 them, and not trample the beds. As to \hz Jirst 

 method, ifthe soil have a dry bottom^ trench in the 

 manner described in Paragraph 20 ; but, in this 

 casv , where there is a root always penetrating 

 downward, do not content yourself with a clean 

 trench two feet deep ; but, before you turn your 

 toft earth into this trench, nut some good manure 

 into it, and dig- it into this bottom fiart ; and then 

 you will have manure at two feet and nine inches 

 from the surface. Your ground being ready, lay 

 out your beds, four feet wide, with a path two feet 

 wide between each two beds. In the fall, having 

 made all the ground right strong w th manure, 

 draw the earth to six inches deep/row the top, of 

 the beds into the fiaths, which will then form high 

 ridges. Then draw your drills afoot apart ; , and sow 

 your seed, as before directed. When they are up, 

 in spring, thin them to a foot afiart. Thus you will 

 have them afoot apart all over the bed. Keep the 

 plants clean all summer; and, when the haulm is 

 y?lloiv in the fall, cut them off near, or close, to 

 the ground ; but, let the haulm be quite dead 

 first ; yet, do it before the frost actually sets in. 

 When you have cut off the haulm, lay some litter 

 upon the bed till spring, to prevent the frost from 

 being too long coming out of the ground in spring. 

 When the frost breaks up, throw some wood 

 ashes, or, some other manure about an inch 

 deep over the bed, having first loosened the top 

 of the bed, with a fork, Upon this manure, throw 



