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or more the fifth ; while a plantation of two-year-old 

 plants, transplanted, will allow of one stalk being cut 

 from each plant the second spring, two the third, and 

 so on. 



For a moderate sized family, beds extending over 

 from 140 to 200 square yards, and containing from 

 700 too 1000 plants, will yield a sufficient supply 

 throughout the season. 



An Asparagus bed formed of a genial soil, and 

 properly drained and managed, will continue in plen- 

 tiful production for thirty years. If the beds are of 

 sufficient extent to allow of their being cut from only 

 once in two years, they will make bountiful returns 

 for a century or more. (Cal. Hort. Mem. ii. 250.) 



It may here be remaked, that the amount of ground 

 tinder Asparagus must ever depend on two important 

 circumstances, viz., the quantity and frequency of the 

 cuttings, and whether the forcing of Asparagus is 

 carried to much extent. To this a third consideration 

 may receive some attention ; and this is, whether, for 

 the sake of any fine ''grass," the proprietor is willing 

 to adopt the resting system, which is proved, by both 

 science and practice, to be perfectly correct. The 

 great longevity of Asparagus, alluded to here, will be 

 found tolerably correct, providing the beds are origi- 

 nally established on good principles ; that cutting 

 does not commence too soon ; and that a system is 

 followed up of giving the beds in succession a rest 



