2 P. MANN & CO.. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



ASPARAGUS. 



Culture. — Seed of Asparagus should be sown as early in the spring as the soil can be worked 

 nto good condition, as the seed germinates best in cool, moist wheather. Sow thinly in drills and 

 when well started thin out to three inches apart. In the fall or following spring transplant to per- 

 manent rows or beds, setting the plants one and one-half feet apart each way. Soaking the seed for 

 twenty-four hours in tepid or warm water before sowing will greatly assist germination. A " packet " 

 contains about three hundred seeds, and an ounce fifteen hundred. 



Use two ounces of seed to ioo feet of row in seed bed : two pounds will produce enough roots 

 to set one acre of land, one and a half feet in row, rows four feet a part, or about eight thousand 

 plants. One hundred plants will make a bed for an ordinary family. 



Conover's Colossal.— The standard variety. Pkt. 5c. Oz. 10c. % lb. 20c. Lb. 50c. 1 

 year old roots 50c. per 100 ; $4.00 per 1000 ; 2 year old roots 75c. per 100 ; $4.00 per 1000 — sent by 

 express at expense of purchaser. 



Palmetto.— This asparagus is now quite extensively grown for New York and Philadelphia 

 markets, where it sells at high prices, owing to its fine size and regularity. Although of Southern 

 origin, it is equally well adapted to the North. Pkt. 5c. Oz. 10c. % lb. 25c. Lb. 75c. Roots 75c. 

 per 100 ; $4.00 per 1000. 



Barr's Mamniotli. — This fine variety has brought in'market thirty-five cents a bunch when 

 other asparagus was selling for ten and fifteen cents. The stalks are very large, frequently an inch 

 in diameter, with few scales ; the stalks retain their thickness completely up to the top of the shoots, 

 and have close round heads. They are extra quick growing, very tender and succulent, entirely free 

 from woody fiber, and make shoots fit for market in a single day. Pkt. 5c. Oz. 10c. % lb. 25c. 

 Lb. 75c. Good strong roots, 1 year old, 50 for 60c. $1.00 per 100 by mail, postpaid. By express, 

 1 year old, 65c. per 100; 500 for $ 2.50 ; $4.50 per 1000. 2 year old roots, by express, 75c. per 100; 

 $6.00 per 1000. 



