CA.KKRLL8’ SELECTED CANA.DIAN WONDER BEAN. 
NEGRO LONG POD BEAN. 
Seeds quickly forwarded to Egypt and India. i 
A (Juii K Mail to Egypt. — 'Hie l*eninsular iind Oriental I 
I ! Company’s express steamer Osiris has, according to a telegram 
1 I received from Egyi»t, made a very fast passage between Hrindisl and 
I I Port Said. She left Hrindisi on Sunday iiigbt, tiieith instant, and j 
arrived at Port Said on Tuesday Evening, steaming for the whole ; 
I distance of nearly 1 ,000 miles in the short time of 4d hours 49 minutes, 
wliieh gives an average speed of over 20 knots. The Osiris is of 
about 2,300 tons displacement, and for a vessel of her size this sustained 
speed, has not been e<jualled. Letters for Egypt were, therefore. ' 
; exactly four days in transit from London. 
ARTICHOKE (Globe). 
(Cynara Scolymus.) Compositje. 
GREEN QEORE ARTICHOKE. 
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 
Y contiune to hear 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 
ronnd the stem... The heads of these are very delicious when boiled and 
served with butter and salt. p^j. ^ ^ 
Large Green Globe— The best .16 
Large Purple Globe— Very useful 1 0 
Jerusalem Artichoke (//cfiontAiK Tuberrsui), not being produced from 
seed, Itoots are offered on page f4. 
Jerusalem Artichoke — Wlilte skinned, see page 44 
For plants, see pn^e 44, 
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ASPARAGUS. 
{Asparagus officinalis.') Liliack.*. 
CONNOVER’s colossal ASI'ARAOUS. 
CULTURE. There is no vegetable more delicious, and certainly 
none more strengthening and renovating to the whole human system, more 
particulaily 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-famished 
drawing-room. Choose the highest and lightest ground in the kitchen 
garden, and stake nnt in September as per diagram, dig out to a foot deep, 
lay it on eech side in the pathway, then wheel in 3 inches of good 
strong manure, fork this in about another foot, and if ilng over deeply tuo 
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 
have G inches of. light friable or even sandy soil. The first year make one 
cutting only, if the plants are three years old, the following winter add more 
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