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LXXIX. On the Cultivation of Asparagus during the 

 Winter. By Mr. Peter Lindegaard, Gardener to his 

 Majesty the King of Denmark, at the Royal Gardens of 

 Rosenburgh, Corresponding Member of the Horticultural 

 Society, 



Read May 4, 1824. 



H diversity of opinion prevails amongst gardeners on 

 the continent relative to the Cultivation of Asparagus. 



Though much on this subject by experienced gardeners 

 is treated of, in the Transactions of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety t I nevertheless venture to offer some instructions on the 

 same subject, but particularly on Forcing Asparagus in the 

 winter, by means of horse-dung in beds in the open air, 

 without frames or lights, which method I have practised more 

 than thirty years. I shall first proceed to describe my mode 

 of forming new plantations, which is that generally practised 

 in Denmark. 



I prepare every year a piece of ground for four or six beds, 

 in the most eligible situations, destroying at the same time 

 an equal number of old and exhausted beds. The soil I 

 prepare for the purpose is a light loam rather sandy ; this is 

 trenched in the autumn, about four feet deep ; in the bottom 

 of the first trench is thrown a layer of old decayed horse- 

 dung, about six inches thick, upon this a layer of earth taken 

 from the next trench, and so proceeding alternately with an 

 equal layer of earth and dung, till the whole is finished. In 

 trenching the ground, the earth is thrown up in high ridges, 



