A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



mending them to the attention of all garden- 

 erSj feeling confident that a trial of them will 

 bear me out in the statement that no better 

 list can be made. There may be others of 

 equal or superior merit, but if there are I 

 have still to find out what they are. 



Asparagus 



Taking the list alphabetically, the first 

 vegetable to consider is asparagus. Con- 

 over's Colossal seems to combine all the 

 merits of the several varieties on the market 

 in such a degree as to give it a place at the 

 head of the list of desirable kinds for ordinary 

 garden culture. It is tender, fine-flavored, 

 and very productive. A dozen plants, after 

 becoming well established, will furnish all 

 that will be required by a family of four or 

 five persons. 



In order to secure good crops of this de- 

 licious vegetable it will be necessary to dig 

 up the soil in which it is to be planted to 

 the depth of two or three feet, and fill the 

 bottom of the excavation with strong manure. 

 Pack this down firmly, and then return to 

 the trench the soil thrown out from it, fer- 

 tilizing this well as you do so. While as- 

 paragus will grow in a soil that is not at all 



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