ON ASPARAGUS. ao$ 



had to make fuch a foil, which is what I 

 mall give directions for in the common as 

 well as the new method, for growing it 

 to a very large fize. 



As the largenefs of afparagus is what 

 is greatly admired, it may be brought to 

 grow to a very large fize in every gentle- 

 man's garden ; but many will object, e- 

 pccially thofe who have fmall kitchen-gar- 

 dens, and have little ground to fpare, that 

 it takes a much greater fpace than in the 

 common method ; yet I do not know, if 

 the product xvas to be weighed, but that 

 the largenefs would make up for number, 

 though I have not as yet tried that expe- 

 riment. 



IN any part of the garden where no wet 

 Hands in the bottom (for where water 

 Hands afparagus will never thrive, as it 

 kills all the roots in winter, they finking 

 down to a great depth) make a trench two 

 feet broad at three feet diftance from the 

 border ; three feet from that another ; and 

 3 fo 



