222 ON ASPARAGUS. 



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fupported it will be very good for many 

 years. 



FORCING afparagus, and having it in the 

 winter months, is much in practice : it 

 is fometimes (when the plants are good) 

 pretty large, and looks tolerably well, but 

 it is impoffible it can "be- good ; for the 

 buds are forced out by. the heat, only, 

 without having any fupply from the roots, 

 except what juices were in them ; and 

 they flrike no new fibres, therefore can 

 draw no nourifhment from the mould 

 they are planted in; for .when the bud? 

 that were formed before planting are all 

 fhot, there is an end, and the plant decays. 



GOOD afparagus may be obtained at a 

 trifling -expeiice, from the beginning of 

 March until the beginning of May, of a 

 fine colour and good tafte. . This is no 

 part of what I propofed to treat of; but, 

 as it is not -in common practice, I fhall 

 give directions how.it may be brought to 

 perfection. 



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