TH£ FAnMEK’s MANUAL. 
.Asparagus. 
Select the driest and warmest part of your garden 
for your asparagus-bed, as you have done for your 
early peas ; render it a deep rich mould by frequent 
digging, and high manuring 4 lay it off into beds of 
four feet wide, and sow your asparagus-seed as you 
have done your onions and carrots, in rows of about 
10 inches asunder. When the plants come forward, 
hoe and weed as often as may be necessary to bring 
forward the plants free fron^ weeds, through the first 
season. 
In April of the next season, stir, or dig the ground 
lightly upon your asparagus, and give a top dressing 
with rich manure ; continue to hoe, and keep down 
the weeds, as before. At autumn, cover your bed 
with long' dung, or litter, from your horse-stable ; and 
in April, rake it oflF, and dig and rake as before. 
When the plants come forward, you may now begin 
to select a few of the most thrifty, for use ; remember 
always to cut just beneath the surface of the ground. 
Continue this process, with occasionally a little salt 
strewed over your beds in the spring, and you may 
enjoy the luxury of good asparagus. 
You may now set a bed of horseradish in the satlie 
way, if you have not done it in March. 
MAY. 
Plant bush- beans and pole-beans of various kinds, 
upon a warm soil, and manure with horse, or bog- 
dung ; (to set the poles first, and then plant the beans 
tound the pole, is generally preferred ;) be sure to 
plant fleet. Hoe and bush such beans as have come 
forward ; hoe and weed your onions, rareripes, gar- 
lics, sallads, &c. Plant your cucumbers in open 
ground, upon a rich, warm soil, and manure with 
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