CANNELLS’ CANADIAN WONDBE BEAN. 
NBQBO BONO POD BEAN. 
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W. Hammock, Esq., Westridge Itoiul, (‘'oiulinrapton, 
lOth Haptember, 1894. 
I must e.xpresB my complete satisfaction at the quality of your 
seeds. I especially congratulate you iii)on the Potato sets you 
forwarded me, and trust you will treat me equally well next year. 
Mr. J. Busby, Gardener to G. D. A. Eawrence, Esq., 
Fox Hills, near Chertsey, l.st Febrvxiry, i894. 
Your flower seeds have so long given me satisfaction that I 
have at last sent to you for all my vegetable seeds, feeling certain 
1 shall benelit by so doing. 
ARTICHOKE (Globe). 
{Cynara Scoli/mus.) Compos itjE. 
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 jrractice 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 
re<juire good treatment; the soil should be rich, deep, and moist, and 
protected in winter by placing straw, bracken, or other dry material closely 
lound the stems. The heads of these are very delicious when boiled and 
served with butter and salt. 
, „ , Per oz. — 8. d. 
Large Green Globe. The best 0 
Large Purple Globe. Very useful i o 
Jerusalem Artichoke (//cfi'ant/nw Tuberosum'), not being produced from 
seed. Hoots are offered on page 4G. 
For plants, see page 4P. 
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ASPARAGUS. 
{Asparagus officinalis.) Lii.iace.I!. 
CONNOVER'b colossal ASI’AKaQUS. 
CULTURE. There is no 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, 't 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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