23(5 Asparagus Culture in France. 



fifteen or twenty years, the operations and the care to be taken are 

 to be repeated from year to year in the manner above indicated. 



" Generally, in a well-established asparagus plantation, the gather- 

 ing, reckoning from its beginning, is to take place during two 

 months, whatever may be the climatic circumstances under which 

 the plantation is placed. 



" It must have been seen that the expense is not very great ; the 

 chief object is the care which must be taken. The main point is 

 to get good plants, in order to obtain good produce. By properly 

 following the rules laid down here, satisfactory results will be 

 obtained." 



[The mode of forcing asparagus chiefly consists in digging deep 

 trenches between beds planted for the purpose, covering the' beds 

 with the soil and with frames, filling in the trenches between each 

 bed with stable manure, and protecting the frames with straw 

 mats and litter to keep in the heat.] 



