Newark, New York State 
Choice Asparagus 
For Fall or Winter Setting 
How TO GROW for family use: No vegetable that can be produced so easily and cheaply. 
A bed of Asparagus of about 100 plants will give an abundant supply for an ordinary 
family. Asparagus is a very profitable vegetable to grow, as the crop is always salable 
at some figure, and probably the reason the market has never been glutted is due to the fact 
that asparagus culture has been regarded by most people as extremely difficult. We know 
instances where it has paid $250 to $400 per acre clear. 
To Plant for Market. Dig the soil deep, and incoiporate in it a heavy coat of rotted 
manure or well decomposed compost. Plant the roots in rows four to six feet apart, and 
three feet between the rows, eight or ten inches deep, crowns up. Cover. the bed in fall with 
manure; fork it in the spring. For Home Garden, set plants one foot apart in rows 18 inches 
wide, for hand hoeing, with same treatment as for market. 
Cultivation and Cutting. After the plants are well started, give frequent and thorough 
cultivation, and diaw a httle earth into the furrows at each hoeing imtil they are filled. Early 
the next spring spade in a heavy dressing of manure, and one quart of salt to each square rod, 
and cultivate well until the plants begin to die down. The next season the bed may be cut 
over two or three times, but if this is done all the shorter shoots, no matter how small, should 
be cut, and after the final cutting give a good dressing of manure, ashes and salt. The next 
season the bed should give a full crop, and be annually dressed with manure, ashes and salt 
after the last cutting, and well but not deeply cultivated, until the plants occupy the whole 
space. In fall, as soon as tops are yellow, cut and burn them. 
Insects. Young beds are sometimes attacked by black beetles, and if the grower does 
not have chickens running loose, a light dusting of air-slacked hme will end the beetle trouble. 
Poultry will be glad to do a good turn in the Asparagus bed for the harm they do in other 
places. 
Conover's Colossal. A variety universally 
acknowledged to be an improvement on 
the older sorts, on account of its im- 
mense size, and being remarkably ten- 
der and high flavored. It is claimed 
that it can be cut one year sooner than 
other varieties. A profitable market sort. 
We recommend this very highly. 
Barr's Mammoth. The largest of all, is 
very early, and quite tender and deU- 
cious; light color. The yield is simply 
enormous. 
Donald's Elmira. New. Very large; 12 
stalks averaged 4 lbs. Very tender and 
succulent. Profitable for market and 
desirable for family use. 
Palmetto. Extensively grown for market 
on account of earliness, large size, and 
fine appearance. 
Select Rhubarb 
RHUBARB, familiarly Icnown as the Pie Plant or Wine Plant, is cultivated in gardens 
for its leaf stalks which are used for pies, tarts, canning, etc. The large size, fine texture 
and superior quality of the new varieties of Rhubarb over the old cultivated "Pie Plant" 
cannot be conceived by those who have never grown it. It is very profitable to grow for 
market purpo.ses, is always in demand, and commands good prices. It grows very rapidly; 
requires little cultivation. 
Planting and Cultivating — Plants should be set four feet apart each way, and the stalks 
will be fit for use the second season after planting. It is benefited by a heavy coat of strong, 
rich manure. 
Myatt's Linnaeus. Early, very tender, and Eaton's Peach Flavored. Very early. Large, 
has a mild sub-acid flavor, not "stringy" tender, delicate, rich peach flavor. For 
, . n^u 1 i • 1 J t pie and sauce it is excellent, 
or tough. Ihe plant is large, and for ■ , ., , 
,. .. . Victoria. Medium size, and quite a favor- 
pies or o her culinary purposes it is the .^^ , 
housewife s favonte. der and quite productive. 
Set 3 ft. apart in rows; have rows 7 ft. apart, 
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