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CULTURE OF VEGETABLES. 
Asparagus. —By the following method, the beds may be made to 
give two crops in the year. Towards the end of July, especially if 
it be rainy weather, cut down the stalks of the plants, fork up the 
beds and rake them. If the weather he dry, sprinkle the beds with 
liquid manure, and leave them rather flat instead of the usual round 
shape, in order that they may retain all the moisture. In ten or fif¬ 
teen days, the asparagus will begin to appear. If the weather conti¬ 
nue dry, apply the liquid manure three times a week. By this 
method you may cut asparagus till the end of September. Gray¬ 
son’s New Giant Asparagus is the best. 
Garden Bean .—In procuring late beans, it has been found an ex¬ 
cellent plan to cut down the stalks after the crop is gathered, for 
they soon sprout up again; and, if showery weather succeed, they 
yield a better supply than is obtained by late planting. 
Lettuce .—Coss lettuce seeds as the Brown Coss, and dwarf Brown 
Bath Coss, to be sown in August, to stand the winter under frames 
or other protection, to come in the first of the Cosses in the spring. 
These and the Silesia should also be sown from March to the end of 
June, as well as radishes. 
Celery .—The white solid, and the red solid, ought to be sown in 
the open ground, in April, and to be transplanted into deep and well 
manured drills, and earthed up in the usual way. Late Crop .—• 
The seeds should be sown in the beginning of May, to stand till the 
end of May in the following year, without running considerably. 
The plants must be removed into moderate trenches, in September 
or October, to be earthed up a little, and, finally in February or 
March. Straw must be spread over them in severe weather. 
Beet Root .—The Large rooted Red Beet should be sown in April, 
and when the plants are three or four inches high, they should be 
planted out a foot apart in the drills, and afterwards earthed up. 
In the autumn, before the frost sets in, the roots ought to be taken 
up on a dry day, their tops to be cut off without injuring their 
crowns, and then laid up in dry sand to be preserved from frost. 
Such roots as are not wanted for use, may be planted out in March 
for seed. 
Potatoe Onion .—The potatoe onions ought to be planted in rich 
and light ground, in the last week in February, to produce bulbs 
which will be fit to be removed in the middle of July. They should 
be planted in beds of three rows, with alleys between the beds, and 
the bulbs a foot apart in the row. Two parts only of the old bulb 
should be covered with earth, and it will gradually decay, producing 
in the mean time many young bulbs around it. It is not only as 
