[Gutenberg 31643] • Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market / A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F.M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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ASPARAGUS

ITS CULTURE FOR HOME USE AND FOR MARKET

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PLANTING, CULTIVATION, HARVESTING, MARKETING, AND PRESERVING OF ASPARAGUS, WITH NOTES ON ITS HISTORY AND BOTANY BY

F. M. HEXAMER

ILLUSTRATED

Printed in U. S. A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE

ASPARAGUS

HISTORICAL SKETCH

BOTANY

ORNAMENTAL SPECIES EDIBLE SPECIES

III

CULTURAL VARIETIES

AMERICAN VARIETIES EUROPEAN VARIETIES VARIETY TESTS

SEED GROWING

THE RAISING OF PLANTS

SOWING THE SEED WHERE THE PLANTS ARE TO REMAIN GOOD CROPS TWO YEARS FROM SEED POT-GROWN ASPARAGUS PLANTS

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

CULTIVATION

CARE DURING THE FIRST YEAR CARE DURING THE SECOND YEAR CARE DURING THE THIRD AND FUTURE YEARS FALL TREATMENT RENOVATING OLD ASPARAGUS BEDS

FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZING

SALT AS A FERTILIZER

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 FOOTNOTES:

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

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