Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
CANNELLS’ CANADIAN WONDEK BEAN. 
NEOBO DONO FOD BEAN. 
Mr. Henry Cmnkaberby, Gardener to C. G. Koebling, Esq., 
333, West State Street, Trenton, N..J., U.S. America, 
' 2GM March, 1895. 
^ I am writing to thank you for so kindly sending over my old trusty 
! friends, Canneila’ Guide and Seed Catalogue. I want you to kindly 
execute the enclosed small order, and please give it your personal 
! attention. 1 prefer quality to quantity, and well know you can give 
i it me. I have one of the very best places in the United States, and 
many wealthy visitors are continually coming here to inspect our 
collections. I make this appeal for yonr personal attention to the 
seeds, as T only want the best, which will do you much real good. 
ARTICHOKE (Globe). 
{Cynara Scohjmus.) CompositjE. 
CULTURE. — Sow in March or April in drills, 18 inches apart, and 
transplants feet apart each way. The fir.st season they will only produce 
a partial crop; but as it is a perennial, after being once planted, the beds 
continue to licar for several years. It is Ihe 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 steins. The heads of these are very delicious when boiled and 
.served with butter and salt. Pgj. qj,_ g j 
Large Green Globe— The best i 0 
Large Purple Globe- Very useful i o 
Jerusalem Artichoke (JleUanlhus Tuherosus), not being produced from 
seed, Hoots are offered on page 45. 
For plants, see page 46. 
ASPARAGUS. 
{Asparagus officinalis.) Lii.iack.h. 
CONNOVER’S colossal ASl-AK.lOUS. 
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, it is re- 
markable that it is not prized and valued almost equal to a well-fumished 
drawing-room. Choose the highest and lightest ground in the kitchen 
garden, and stake out in September ns per diagram, dig out to a foot deep, 
lay it on eech side in the pathway, then wheel in 3 inches of good 
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