SEED-BEDS 



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The seed does not readily germinate, so that if the 

 soil be foul a good crop of weeds will be the result, 

 and with these it will not be easy to deal. 



Therefore, in order to secure clean land, prepare the 



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ROOTS OF ONE-YEAR-OLD ASPARAGUS PLANT - 

 QUARTER NATURAL SIZE 



beds early, by well manuring them and by having them 

 dug early in the winter, throwing up the soil roughly. 

 This will be the means of having it well pulverised by 

 frost. On a dry day about the end of February the 

 ground can be lightly forked over, but not so deeply 



