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notion of the way in which these lesser mounds are formed, 

 we have only to glance at fig. 6, where we have the section 

 of an Asparagus plantation before these lower mounds have 

 been formed. The stools are at the bottom of the hollows 

 T T, and the upper mounds a a are at their greatest height, 

 whilst after the operation of earthing up the lesser mounds 

 has taken place, the aspect of the ground becomes completely 



Fig. 6.— Asparagus trenches before earthing up. 



changed, as seen in fig 7. The mounds A a (fig. 6) are 

 lowered, their tops c c c being completely carried away, as 

 shown in fig. 7, in order to fill up the trenches and form the 

 lower mounds b b, covering up the Aspargus stools t t (fig. 

 7). It must be perfectly understood that the lesser mounds 



Fig. 7.— Asparagus trenches after earthing up. 



which earth up the stools are not continuous ridges like the 

 upper ones A A (figs. 6 and 7), but form little isolated conical 

 hillocks, like mole-hills, the centre of each being over the 

 centre of each Asparagus stool. Consequently, B B (fig. 7) 

 represents a series of separate mounds and not a continuous 

 ridge running from one end of the trench to the other. Some 

 cultivators recommend that these lower mounds should be 



