Cann^:! 
Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Gnide. 
CANNKLLS’ CANADIAN WONDER BEAN. 
NEOBO LONG POD BEAN. 
I Jame.s Chambers, Esq., Solicitor, Saddler Street, Durham, 
21st July, 1897. 
You seut some Seeds to Mr. Hotham, Bainton, Hull, last year, and 
if you have any record of it I should like a similar lot; they are truly 
grand. 
I Mr. S. Buckley, Hartford Park, Castle Northwich, 17tA May, 1897. 
j Thanks for catalogues. I have never told you I ivas perfectly 
j satisfied with the seeds you sent us, they were splendid. Our garden 
1 never looked so well as the year when we got our things from you. 
ARTICHOKE (Globe). 
{Cynara Scolynms.) Composit.®. 
CULTURE . — Sow in Maich or April in drills, 18 inches apart, and 
tiousplant 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 
continne 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 when boiled and 
served with butter and salt. r, , 
Per oz. — s. d. 
Large Green Globe— The best i o 
Large Purple Globe — Very useful i o 
Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus Taberosut), not being produced from 
seed. Boots are offered on page 43. 
For plante, see page 4?. 
ASPARAGUS. 
(A sparagus officinalis . ) LiliacejE . 
connovbb’s colossal asparagus. 
CULTURE.— There is nol vegetable more delicious, and certainly 
none more strengthening and renovating to the whole human system, more 
particul^Iy to the kidneys, than Asparagus. Considering its easy cultnre, 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 3 inches of good 
strong manure, fork this in about another foot, and if dug over deeply two 
or three times so much the better ; on the top of this place a fair coating of 
well-rotted manure, and over this 3 inches of soil from out of the alley, 
then place one plant to every 9 inches, spreading the roots well out, 
covering them over with the finest soil, free from stones. For the top covering 
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