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may be transplanted into good ground prepared as directed 
for Asparagus. Plant two rows in each bed, about eighteen 
inches apart ; the best way is to make two drills three inches 
deep, and with a dibble set in the plants fifteen or sixteen 
inches from each other; when these drills are filled, tlm 
crowns of the plants will be covered nearly two inches, but 
they will soon push through the earth. The plants left in 
the seed-bed may form a permanent bed, which should be 
forked or dug between the rows ; previous to this being done, 
lay on an inch or two of good rotten manure, and incorporate 
it with the earth around the plants. 
Some make new plantations of the old roots, which should 
be cut up into pieces of about two inches in length, and 
planted in March or April, three or four inches deep, at the 
distance before directed for the plants. 
At the approach of winter the leaves will die away, and 
disappear. The beds should then be thickly covered with 
dung, leaves, or sea- weed ; this will not only protect the 
plants from frost, but will cause them to shoot up early in 
the spring. As soon as the frost is out of the ground, this 
may be taken off, or, if well rotted, it may be mixed up with 
the earth ; the crowns of the plants should then be covered 
to the depth of ten or twelve inches for blanching. 
Some blanch it by heaping on it sea sand ; some common 
sand and gravel ; and others with large garden pots, inverted 
and placed immediately over the plants. If these pots be 
covered up with fresh horse dang, it will forward the shoots 
in growth, and make them sweeter and more tender. 
When your plants have been covered in either method 
thfee or four weeks, examine them, and if you find that the 
stalks have shot up three or four inches, you may begin cut- 
ting ; should you wait till all the shoots are of considerable 
length, your crop will come in too much at once, for in this 
plant there is not that successsive growth which there is in 
Asparagus ; you may continue cutting until you see the heads 
of flowers begin to form ; and if at this time you uncover if 
