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F. M. Hexamer. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market
Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ASPARAGUS
I
HISTORICAL SKETCH
II
BOTANY
ORNAMENTAL SPECIES
EDIBLE SPECIES
III
CULTURAL VARIETIES
AMERICAN VARIETIES
EUROPEAN VARIETIES
VARIETY TESTS
IV
SEED GROWING
V
THE RAISING OF PLANTS
SOWING THE SEED WHERE THE PLANTS ARE TO REMAIN
GOOD CROPS TWO YEARS FROM SEED
POT-GROWN ASPARAGUS PLANTS
VI
SELECTION OF PLANTS
MALE AND FEMALE PLANTS
PRODUCT FROM FIFTY PLANTS EACH, MALE AND FEMALE
VII
THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION
PREPARATION OF THE GROUND
VIII
PLANTING
DISTANCE TO PLANT
DEPTH OF PLANTING
MANNER OF PLANTING
PLACING THE ROOTS
IX
CULTIVATION
CARE DURING THE FIRST YEAR
CARE DURING THE SECOND YEAR
CARE DURING THE THIRD AND FUTURE YEARS
FALL TREATMENT
RENOVATING OLD ASPARAGUS BEDS
X
FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZING
SALT AS A FERTILIZER
XI
HARVESTING AND MARKETING
CUTTING
SORTING AND BUNCHING
MARKETING
XII
FORCING
FORCING IN THE GREENHOUSE
FORCING IN HOTBEDS AND FRAMES
FORCING IN THE FIELD
XIII
PRESERVING ASPARAGUS
CANNING
DRYING
XIV
INJURIOUS INSECTS
THE COMMON ASPARAGUS BEETLE[A]
THE TWELVE-SPOTTED ASPARAGUS BEETLE
THE ASPARAGUS MINER
Footnote
XV
FUNGUS DISEASES
RECOGNITION OF THE RUST
METHODS OF TREATING THE RUST
ASPARAGUS LEOPARD SPOT
XVI
ASPARAGUS CULTURE IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES
ASPARAGUS IN NEW ENGLAND
ASPARAGUS ON LONG ISLAND
ASPARAGUS IN NEW JERSEY
ASPARAGUS IN THE SOUTH
ASPARAGUS CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA
ASPARAGUS IN FRANCE
INDEX
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F. M. Hexamer
A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history
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Asparagus acutifolius.—A native of Southern Europe and Northern Africa. It has a fleshy rootstock, hard, wiry, brown stems, five to seven feet high, with rigid branches three to six inches long, thickly closed, with tufts of gray-green, hair-like, rigid leaves, which in exposed situations are almost spinous. Flowers yellow, a quarter of an inch in diameter, fragrant. The young sprouts are tender, and, when cooked, of a peculiar aromatic flavor. In their native home they are used like the cultivated kind.
A. aphyllus.—Indigenous to Greece, where the young shoots are commonly used as food, especially during Lent.
