THE BRUNSWICK METHOD OF ASPARAGUS CULTURE. 445 
6 inches ; in Berlin it is liked longer, but then the lower portion 
is apt to be hard and less well flavoured. 
The earth should be carefully levelled with the hand after 
cutting, or it will not be so easy to find the shoots next time. 
Always remove the withered stalks in the autumn before the seed 
falls, and manure regularly. 
Liquid manure can scarcely be overdone ; Asparagus will 
consume and will benefit by incredible quantities of it ; but if 
liquid manure is not used the gangway should be filled with 
manure in the third autumn, and in the fourth spring the earth 
from the gangways spread over the beds, now a yard and a quarter 
wide, and from 6 to 8 inches high. 
Cutting in the fourth year may continue till the middle of 
June. 
Where the culture is carried on in fields, a wide trench should 
be made down the middle of each field, to be filled with liquid 
manure or guano, but on a large scale this is scarcely practicable 
on account of expense, as one preserving establishment will have, 
perhaps, seventy acres under cultivation. 
Long manure should never be used, as the straw is an obstacle 
to the piercing through of the young shoots. 
The following year's cultivation is to be similar to the fourth 
year. Never cut later than July 1, as that would interfere with 
the perfect development of the rootstocks and of the subsequent 
crops. Manure annually the beds and the ways alternately. 
Asparagus grown in this v/ay produces not only very well 
flavoured but very large stalks, weighing seven to ten to the 
pound, and they have been produced as large as half a pound 
each. 
In Brunswick and the neighbourhood there are now about 
1,000 acres devoted to Asparagus, proving very profitable. The 
greater part of it is preserved and exported in barrels or tins all 
over Europe, and to the United States of America, and very 
excellent it is, large and white and tender throughout its whole 
length. 
