Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
Mr. W. A. Cook, Compton Bassett Gardens, Caine, Wilts. 
I am appointed judge at several shows, and I am so struck with 
the perfection of the following Cannells’ Best of All Beet, Perfection 
Tomato, Perfection Carrot, Giant Cos Lettuce, and English Wonder 
Pea that I wish you would send cards to place on them. If our English 
Wonder Pea is by far the best early wrinkled pea in cultivation. My 
foreman of the kitchen garden says it is the finest pea for all purposes. 
G. P. Shaw, Esq., 148, Beresford Street, Camberwell, S.E. 
Your seeds last season were excellent. 
ARTICHOKE (Globe). 
( Cynara Scolymus.) Composite. 
CULTURE. —Sow in March or April in drills, 18 inches apart, and 
transplant 3 feet apart each way. The first season they will only produce 
a partial crop ; but as it is a perennial, after being once planted, the beds 
continue to bear for several years. It is the practice of some to sow 
annually in March so as to keep two beds in use, digging up the oldest plot 
at the end of the second or third year. So as to secure fine heads they 
require good treatment; the soil should be rich, deep, and moist, and 
protected in winter by placing straw, bracken, or other dry material closely 
round the stems. The heads of these are very delicious w hen boiled and 
served with butter and salt. p er oz- — s , 
Large Green Globe. The best 0 10 
Large Purple Globe. Very useful l 0 
Jerusalem Artichoke (. Helianthus Tuberosus), not being produced from 
seed, Roots arc offered on page 44. 
For plants, see page 44. 
ASPARAGUS. 
(. Asparagus officinalis .) Liliaceje. 
connover’s 
COLOSSAL ASPARAGUS. 
CULTURE. — There is r.o vegetable more delicious, and certainly 
none more strengthening and renovating to the whole human system, more 
particularly to the kidneys, than Asparagus. Considering its easy culture, and 
coming in at a time between the winter greens and green peas, it is re- 
markable that it is not prized and valued almost equal to a well furnished 
drawing-room. Choose the highest and lightest ground in the kitchen 
garden, and stake out in September as per diagram, dig out to a foot deep, 
lay it on each side in the pathway, then wheel in. three inches of good 
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