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a tree, digging, hoeing, and weeding are unnecessary, and that 

 these isolated clumps will furnish large and good crops for 

 many years, especially in those places which have been dug 

 deeply for the reception of trees, or where new soil and manure 

 have been laid down for the same purpose, and that without 

 in any way injuring the neighbouring trees, which-themselves 

 in turn profit by the care bestowed on the Asparagus, as well 

 as by the manure with which it is dressed from time to time. 

 Cost and Yield of a Hectare (2J acres) Planted 

 with Asparagus at Argenteuil. 

 Opening the trenches, making the mounds, planting 

 the stools at the rate of 100 stools per work- 

 ing day, at 4s. 2d., or £2 per thousand for 

 10,000 stools ... ... ... ... £20 



10,000 stools at £3 12s. per 1000 ... ... 36 



Carriage and sundries, say ... ... ... 4 



£60 



By spreading this sum over twenty years, the average life 

 of a plantation, we have per annum ... ... £3 



Eent of one hectare of land at 2s. 4|d. per acre, 



say ... ... ... ... ... 12 



Labour, one hectare, say ... ... ... 14 



Manure, per annum ... ... ... 14 



Cutting, pulling, bundling, carriage to Paris market 40 

 Sundries, say ... ... ... ... 3 



£86 



The medium yield of each stool is half a bundle, 

 which for 10,000 stools would be 5000 bundles, 

 at say Is. 7id. ... ... ... £400 



Deduct for bad crops, damage, &c. ... ... 60 



£340 



Expenses ... ... ... ... 86 



£254 



