The Canadian Horticlm.tlrist. 



room can be secured with little extra cost. The one objection to this conveni- 

 ence under the ice chamber is, that it is likely to allow drafts of air up through 

 the ice-house unless great care is excerised. A tight, or nearly tight, and slop- 

 ing floor should be made and the drainage carried into a trough and away from 



the building, in a pipe. Of course the 

 floor, which also forms the ceiling of the 

 cold storage room, must be heavily 

 ;<4j propped, or underpinned, to support 

 ice so the great weight above will not 

 crush it in. Many find such a storage 

 room extremely useful in holding, for 

 a few days, small fruits, vegetables, 

 meats, etc., for market, and for preserv- 

 ing the family supplies. For founda- 

 tion walls probably nothing is cheaper 

 or superior to concrete well laid below 

 irost. The walls, if of wood, must be 

 double or treble the same as for the» 

 ice-house proper. Double doors and 

 windows must also be provided. Never 

 overlook the rule, that the smaller the 

 amount of ice stored, the greater is its 

 proportionate waste. Farm and Home. 



Fig. :?. — ICK I'HAMBEI:. 



ASPARAGUS. 



Mr. Perkin.s, of Madison Station, read a paper on Asparagus Culture in Ml^'- 

 sissippi. He has been cultivating this plant but a few years. For several years 

 he obtained roots from high-priced northern nurseries. He has since found 

 that by saving his own seed, and planting them in the early spring, he could 

 have by the following fall finer roots in every respect than the two-year old roots 

 from Illinois. 



Land for asparagus should be heavily manured, deeply plowed, and com- 

 pletely pulverized ; rows five feet apart, plants two feet, 4500 plants to the acre. 

 He objects to deep plowing in cultivating this crop. Shallow cultivation, keep- 

 ing plants free from weeds and grass, is all that is needed. Asparagus is a vora- 

 cious feeder. He has used barnyard manure, cotton seed and ashes with good 

 effect. 



He commenced shipping last season 23rd of February, and continued till 

 last of April. Mr. Perkins thinks asparagus will pay in Madison Co., Miss. ; 

 latitude about two degrees above New Orleans. 



Dr. H. E. McKay thinks asparagus will pay. He has 60 rows. 100 yards 

 long, on which he put 90 wagon loads of manure. From proceedings of yfiss. 

 State Horticultural Soctety. 



