PREMIUM SEEDS 
Planing a Garden for Brent’s Premium Seeds 
INSECT REMEDIES. — For the asparagus beetle, 
spray with Arsenate of Lead. 3 lbs. to 50 gallons of 
water. Or dust with Slug Shot, air slaked lime or 
Dry Arsenate of Lead, while the dew is on the plant. 
COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE. — Produces shoots 
which stay white as long as tit for use without earth- 
ing up or any other artificial blanching. Nearly all 
seedlings will produce clear white shoots. For prices 
see colored pages. 
!f) CONOVER’S COLOSSAL. — A standard variety. Pop- 
ular, productive, good. For prices see colored pages. 
Columbian Mammoth 
In planing a garden it is well to work for a rotation of, crops and to lay out the beds in symmetrical 
form. Where irrigaiton cannot be practiced have the celery and late cabbage on a moist soil but for all gen- 
eral purposes a porous clay soil overlaid with sandy loam or a good loam will do for any average crop that 
the average gardener may wish to raise. If you desire early vegetables it is well to begin with hot beds 
and^cold frames in January and February. These consist of frames filled with soil to about 6 or 8 inches of 
the top and covered with sash or window glass. The cold 
frame has no other means of heating save the sun’s 
rays striking on the glass while the hot bed is like 
the cold frame, except that it is heated by a depth 
of fermenting manure under the soil, the temperature 
never being allowed to go below 50 degrees at night 
or about 70 degrees in the day time. As the plants 
come up and grow strong and the weather becomes 
warmer the sash may be removed during the day, 
being replaced at night or in inclement weather and 
when the plants are big enough they should be trans- 
planted to the open garden. In this way egg plant, 
peppers, tomatoes, melons, cabbage, cauliflower, let- 
tuce, radishes, etc., are all brought in much earlier 
than would be the case were the seeds planted di- 
rectly In the open, though it is by no means neces- 
sary to the success of your garden. 
ASPARGUS 
ASPARACITS CULTURE.— Almost any good loamy 
garden land is good for Asparagus. One ounce of seed 
will produce about 200 plants. Sow in rows 12 to 
15 Inches apart as early in the spring as the ground 
permits and give it good cultivation. Thin the plants 
to 2 or 3 inches apart. For the permanent bed a deep 
warm, rich loamy soil is necessary, deeply and thor- 
oughly worked, manured and fertilized. When the 
seedlings are two years old set them 14 to 24 inches 
apart in furrows 8 to 10 inches deep and separated 
by a distance of 2 to 3 feet and cover lightly at first, 
then gradually fill in with soil. In the early spring 
plow the bed shallowly or pulverize with a harrow, 
and in the fall cover with manure or compost. The 
second season after planting, hill up the rows and cut 
sparingly for use, the young shoots which appear 
above the ground. After that the bed will give good 
crops. The two years given to growing the seedings 
may be saved by procuring the two-year-old roots and 
planting them, which is a very satisfactory arrange- 
ment. 
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