KITCIIFN GARBEN DISPLAYED. 33I 



by the root, and produce annual crops, ac- 

 cording to their dilferent kinds, all of which 

 is particularly explained under the refpetlive 

 heads of the various plants, and difplaying alfo 

 the feveral varieties of each, and their ge- 

 neral ufes, and proper culture, in the follow- 

 ing order, alphabetically. 



ASPARAGUS. 



Dutch Asparagus 

 Battersea Asparagus 

 . Gravesend Asparagus 

 Large Reading Asparagus 



Thefe are all one forty not differing in their 

 gronvth, only are raifed in greater perfeSlion 

 in regard to Jize of the JhootSy in different 

 places, as abo-ve, 



ASPARAGUS is a hardy perennial- 

 rooted plant, always railed from (tedi 

 fowed in the Spring, for plandng out in the 

 Spring following, when £ year old, in four 

 feet and half wide beds, a foot apart, and ia 

 three years after, will produce buds of proper 

 fize for gathering, and the fame roots con- 

 tinue of feveral years duration, producing a 

 crop of fhoots annually in May, and June, 

 &c. and in Winter, by planting in hot-beds* 

 The plants being always raifed from feed. 

 Cow it in March, or beginning of April, in a 

 bed of rich earth, brqad-caft and rake it ia 



evenly. 



