ON ASPARAGUS. 301 





 CHAP. XV, 



On Afparagus 



f I ^ H E common method of managing 

 JL Afparagus beds is fb well known, 

 that it is not neceflary to fay any thing 

 on that head ; but there are feveral places 

 in England that are remarkable for having 

 larger afparagus than the common run of 

 the country, as Batterfea and Gravefend, 

 pear London, which fome may attribute 

 to a different management, which is not 

 the cafe, but the goodnefs and depth of 

 t;he foil. 



I THINK that PontefracT:, in Yorkfhire, 

 is greatly preferable to the above places in 

 the goodnefs of its foil, and might produce 

 larger afparagus. 



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