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in the fucceedi'ng years, gather the whole as 

 they come, during the feafon of their perfec- 

 tion. May and June, two or three times a 

 week. 



in old afparsgus beds, of a produi^ive {late 

 forgathering, manuring with rotten dung will 

 be of good advantage once in two or three 

 years, applied in Autumn, when the llalks 

 are cut down, forking it into the beds a fmall 

 depth, adding fome alfo into the alleys, which 

 then dig, working the dung thereof into the 

 bottom, and land up part of the earth over 

 the beds as before direded. 



To fave afparagiis feed for fowing, the 

 llioots running to ftalks in Autumn, produce 

 plenty of feed in fmall red berries, ripening 

 in Odlober, when gather what may be wanted. 



Early ASPARAGUS by Hot-beds. 



"g ARLY afparagus is obtained by planting 

 three years old roots in hot-beds, in Win- 

 ter and Spring. 



The plants for this purpofe of forcing are 

 raifed and planted out as before diredled, in 

 beds in the natural ground, but need not be 

 planted more than fix to nine inches diftance in 

 the rows 5 and when of two or three years growth 

 in the tranfplanted natural beds, they will be 

 of a proper age and ftrength for the forcing 

 bufinefs, fo as to produce Ihoots of a proper 

 fize; obferving of which, as they ihould be 

 fJanted VQry thick in hot-beds, or as dole as 



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