Asparagus 
BUNTINGS' NURSERIES, Inc. 
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BUNTINGS’ ASPARAGUS 
Buy your plants from certified growers. We are positively the largest growers of Asparagus crowns in 
the country. Our acreage under cultivation for the production of plants to supply commercial growers and 
gardeners runs up to as many as 100 acres during a single season. Soil and climatic conditions here on the 
Peninsula are ideal for producing heavy crowns with sturdy, long, fat roots. If you have not given our 
plants a trial, it might be to your advantage to do so. Growing the best Asparagus plants of the better 
varieties is one of our specialties. 
CULTURAL HINTS. Plant from 
5 to 6 inches deep; hence furrows must be 
made by the use of a plow or some other 
machinery just that depth, covering with 
only 2 to 3 inches of soil at the time of 
planting; cover remainder of furrow to 
ground level during the Summer a little 
from time to time after plants have sent 
up growth through the first covering. 
Many amateurs get the idea that they 
must dig a trench deep.enough to plant 
with crowns 5 to 6 inches below the ground 
level (which is correct); however, the mis¬ 
take is that the roots they think should 
be in a direction straight down which is 
not necessary or proper. The furrow 
should be 5 to 6 inches deep and the plants 
placed at the bottom of the furrow, which 
makes the roots and the crown on the 
same level. We admit the plants when planted in this manner are laying on their sides so to speak; never¬ 
theless the crowns will turn new shoots upward and growth will not be retarded. After plants have grown 
through the Summer following the Spring planting, they are ready for plant food. A good top-dressing of 
barnyard manure is fine during the month of November or sometime during the Winter months. If this can 
be done, then not much other extras are necessary. However, with the barnyard manure, it would be well 
to apply at the rate of from 100 to 200 pounds of Nitrate of Soda to the acre in March before the tips appear. 
In a great number of instances an application of about five bushels of salt to the acre during the month of 
January and from two to three hundred pounds of Nitrate of Soda applied to the acre during March is about 
all the plant food many commercial growers use. 
The canes may be mowed down during the Fall months about the time we have our first frost. While 
this is not necessary, it should however be cleaned off the ground and burned sometime before growth starts 
in the Spring. We recommend this even though it’s true in a larger number of instances it is never done. 
Profits from Asparagus are encouraging. It’s ready for market in April and May before other crops are 
ready to bring in money. This is another reason why the growing of Asparagus is considered by our most 
prosperous agriculturists. It gives them money early in the season at a time when it is most needed, and 
therefore the funds received from Asparagus tips is more appreciated than that of any crop produced on 
the farm. 
Plant in rows 5 feet apart with plants set 2 feet apart in the row. Under this schedule it requires 
4,356 plants to set an acre. Some growers prefer planting in rows of more space than the figures represented 
here. In a number of instances this is done for the convenience of a certain spraying outfit which they 
are using for other crops. Hence the figures we give here are standard as to distance of planting or those 
most general in practice. 
We pay transportation charges on Asparagus Root 
orders received within a radius of 500 miles of 
Selbyville 
Write Jor special prices on large orders 
25 100 1000 5000 
3 year No. 1.. .$0.75 $2.00 $9.00 $40.00 
2 year No. 1... .60 1.50 7.00 27.50 
1 year No. 1... .40 1.00 5.00 22.50 
MARTHA WASHINGTON. Th is is a sister to 
Mary Washington, however, it is claimed that its 
sister is a more vigorous grower and possibly more 
rust resistant. With us here in our nurseries, there 
seems to be no difference in the two varieties that 
we can detect by carefully watching them in the 
nursery rows. 
BARR’S MAMMOTH. Early and very large; 
makes a rapid growth. A general favorite. 
We grow about 2,000,000 Asparagus Crowns ea 
ings you should 
MARY WASHINGTON. A comparatively new 
variety originated by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, and without any doubt the best va¬ 
riety of Asparagus grown at this time. All of the 
commercial growers are planting Washington alto¬ 
gether, or a large percentage of their acreage to 
Washington. Very strong grower, stock of giant 
size, green color, rich, and tender. It is our opinion 
that the two principal good points of this variety 
is that it is rust resistant, also a stronger grower 
than any of the old standards of Asparagus. 
CONOVER’S COLOSSAL. An old variety, well 
known in all localities. Large and makes a rapid 
growth. Very popular. 
GIANT ARGENTEUIL. This variety is largely 
grown in France. Stalks are immense size, rich 
and tender. Earlier than the other varieties. 
PALMETTO. Of Southern origin. Very large and 
productive. Most extensively used Asparagus. 
l year; if interested in large commercial plant- 
lit our nurseries. 
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