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The remainder is filled with several reports, lists of fruits classed, and of 

 officers and members of the society. 



The proceedings are to be distributed only to members. New members 

 paying the biennial subscription, two dollars, to Thomas P. James, Philadel- 

 phia, the Treasurer, or to Marshall P. Wilder, President, Boston, Mass., 

 can be supplied. 



It is one of the most useful guides in the choice of fruits and their 

 qualities in different localities we can recommend. 



Messrs. Meehan and Saunders, Nurserymen and Landscape Gardeners, 

 will act as our agents in Germantown and its vicinity, and will receive all 

 money due us there. 



ASPARAGUS. 



In answer to an inquiry as to the advantage of deep-planting Asparagus, 

 the Americant Agriculturalist gives the following : 



In meeting the wants of our correspondent, it will be necessary to go a 

 little into detail, in our remarks upon this earliest and best of the vegetable 

 products of the garden. If people only knew how to cultivate Asparagus 

 in its perfection, they would welcome the month of May for the delicacy, 

 almost as warmly as for its flowers ; and, judging from the tall spikes that 

 make their appearance at that date in our own garden, they might save 

 themselves the trouble of rearing May-poles, and hang out their flowery 

 festoons and garlands upon poles of their own growing. 



We have no experience in deep planting, because we think we have a 

 more excellent way. The deep planting which is resorted to by some of 

 the English gardeners, and which, we presume, was introduced by them 

 into this country, is unphilosophical, and is condemned by the best authori- 

 ties on gardening. The Gardeners' Chronicle, one of the best English 

 Journals devoted to this art, says, in an article upon this vegetable : " The 

 Asparagus being brought to the requisite state of vigor, the next question 

 is, how to secure the necessary degree of succulence, which it never has 

 beyond two or three inches in an English market, and not often anywhere 

 else. That succulence will depend upon temperature as much as upon 

 other causes. The warmer the Asparagus bed is kept while the plants are 

 rising, the more brilliant they will be, provided the temperature of the soil 



