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carefully when about four inches high, on a moist day; 

 they are ** tipped" at the root, dipped in a manure- 

 puddle prepared on purpose, and placed in the bot- 

 tom of a grass-barrow with high sides, containing a 

 wet mat, which is kept constantly over them until 

 they are transplanted. They are then inserted in 

 rows in the prepared soil, nine inches between the 

 rows and four inches between plant and plant. No- 

 thing is necessary now but to give daily waterings 

 when the weather is dry, and to keep them free of 

 weeds through the summer. We generally, however, 

 mulch with any leaf-soil or stable manure, three inches 

 deep between the rows shortly after planting : this 

 preserves the fibres from sudden and injurious vicis- 

 situdes. 



For a bed 4| feet wide by 6 feet long, a quart 

 of seed will be sufficient. If sown to remain, then 

 for three rows in a bed, 30 feet in length, half a pint 

 of seed will be necessary. The seed will come up in 

 three weeks. 



SOIL AND MANURES. 



Asparagus being a native of the sea shore, and 

 there only in sandy, shingly plots, from which an 

 excess of water is removed immediately that the tide 

 recedes, we thence may learn the contingencies essen- 



