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winter months; plant them four feet apart each way. Every fall the 
ground should be manured and spaded or plowed between them. If 
planted by seed, sow them in drills during winter or early spring, 
three inches apart and one foot from row to row; cover with about 
one-half inch of earth. The following fall the plants can be trans- 
planted and cultivated as reeommended above. The seeds I offer are 
imported by me from Italy, and of superior quality; I can also furnish 
sprouts or plants in the fall of the year. 
Eariy Campania. An early variety imported by me from 
Italy and which fruited for the first time the past season. The cut 
represents as it grows, and has been taken froma branch brought to 
me; it is flatter at the base than the Globe; being very early I con- 
sider it quite an acquisition. 
is : ASPARAGUS. 
4 ASPERGE (F'r.), SPARGEL, (Ger.), ESPARAGOS (Sp.). 
Purple Top. The Asparagus is not extensively cultivated in the 
South; not-that it is not liked well enough, but from the fact that it 
does not suceeed as well asin more Northern latitudes. It seems that 
it is short-lived, the roots giving out soon or throwing up very small 
shoots. 
The ground should be well manured and prepared before either 
the roots or seeds are planted. For this climate the sowing of seed is 
preferable. Roots are generally imported from the North, and I have 
found that the roots raised here, one year old, are as strong as those 
received from the North three yearsold. Plantthe seedin early spring. 
Soak over night in water; plantin rows, orrather hills, one foot apart 
and.two feet between; put from four to five seeds in each hill: when 
well up thin out to two plants. The following winter, when the stalks 
are cut off, cover witha heavy coat of well rotted manure and a sprink- 
ling of salt; fishbrine will answer the same purpose. In the spring | 
fork in the manure between the rows and keep clean of weeds. The 
same treatment should be repeated every year. The bed should not 
be cut before being three years established. Care must be taken not 
to cut the stalks too soon in the fall of the year—not until we have had 
a frost. If eut before, it will cause the roots to throw up young shoots, 
which will weaken them. 
BUSH BEANS. 
Culture, 
and for succession, every two or three weeks to May. During June 
and July. Bush Beans planted in this latitude will not produce much. 
August and September are good months in which to plant again ; they 
will produce abundantly till killed: by the frost. Do not cover the 
seeds more than two inches. 
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Place in rows eighteen inches apart. Plant from end of February; 
