The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-30
Culture Of Garden Vegetables.

Appended to the work on " Practical
Landscape Gardening" by G.. NJ. Kern
= of Cincinnati, recently noticed in our
columns, is a chapter GA the culture of
garden vegetables. which is so practical
4 and concise that We are induced to make
pretty free extracts for the benefit of
our readers who are not yet 80 fortu-
nate as 10 possers the book:
AsFARAGUs.-Asparagus is a quite
well known and highly esteemed veget-
able, it varies much in strength OF
growth, according to the soil in which it
is grown. Substantial, loamy soil j.
the best adapted for it. It cannot be
too richly MANFRED. To raise a bed OF
Asparagus, the seed should be sosn
tainly, in drills after being soaked for
6few days in water. 1.-THE young plants
are afterwards kept clear of weeds, ard
the ground well hoed about them, they
viii obtain sufficient strength during the
first year to bear setting out, the second
spring, into the beds in which they are
to remsin. Plants Of ono or two years
old are, however, generally to be found
for sale in the seed stores and in rails
ing Asparagus fer table use, it is best
to purchase of these, thus saving a years
growth and attention, which would 9th
erwise be lost. The patch or bed into
which Asparagus is to be transplantcd
should be prepared with great care
k,sFhe most convenient size for beds is
from four to five feet wide, and as long
as desired. In these beds the ground
should be very deeply dug, (trenohed, J
and prOfusely MANFRED. To throw rot
fen wood and decayed vegetable matter
of any kind as a bottom lager, into the
bed, will be found useful. In short,
the richer, deeper, and mellower the
ground is made, the more luxuriant and
tender viii the Asparagus be. The
plants should not be set out until just
as they begin to push or give evidence
of returning life, in the spring. This
should be carefully attended to, in order
to make them uniform in coming up
They are set four or five inches deep in
the ground in row. twelve inches apart
both ways, The beds must be filed er-
cry winter anew, with manure and earth,
that the roots may be always six inches
below the surface. In the spring, the
beds should be well dug with a fork,
got with a spade. A layer of salt APP
piled to the surface of the beds, in the
spring, is highly beneficial to the plants.
RHUBARB, OR PIE-rLANr.-Ths foot
stalk of the leaf of Rhubarb, or Pie
plant, is used in the kitchen, and is high
" esteemed as an eseulent. There ars
several varieties, which bear different
names in various places, a small variety.
With purple tinted foot-stalks, is the
earliest in spring. The Victoria a va
riety lately introduced, is the largest
and most esteemed of all. The root of
the Rhubarb may be divided into as
many different parts as there are eyes,
each ofwhich viii grow, if planted out.
When it is desired to raise them from
the. seed, this should be o III in good
ground in the garden, or better yet,
earlyin the spring, ID hotbeds. They
may be transplanted or set out during
the summer. Beds for Rhubarb may
be placed in any part of the garden,
where the soil is not so wet as to
rot the roots in winter The beds
should be we'll MANFRED, when first used
and afterwards every winter. The rich
er the ground is made, the finer will be
the plants.