American Varieties
Barr's Mammoth (Barr's Philadelphia Mammoth).--Originated with Crawford Barr, a prominent market...
What is Asparagus? It is an extremely healthy vegetable has that has a unique taste and an interesting story. This section starts with talk about the culture of aspargus, the history and the the different varieties found around the globe.
Once the detailed history lesson is over articles describe in greater detail when and how to go about growing aspargus. From seeding to soil preparation to discussions on depth of planting you get a good understanding of how to plant your own aspargus.
This section ends with modern history with geographical culivation references. It also gives good insight into insects, and harvesting the aspargus crop.
Barr's Mammoth (Barr's Philadelphia Mammoth).--Originated with Crawford Barr, a prominent market...
The growing of asparagus for market in California is proving to be one of the most successful of...
Asparagus is grown much more abundantly and to a much larger size in France than in England. The...
Asparagus was grown in Concord, Mass., in a limited way as early as 1825. Mr. Edmund Hosmer used...
An important point in asparagus culture is to remove the top growth in the fall of the year. For...
There is no crop grown by the Southern trucker that has paid better than asparagus year after ye...
Attention was called to this new disease by Prof. W. G. Johnson, in Bulletin No. 50, Maryland Ex...
The cultivation of asparagus on Long Island does not differ materially, in most respects, from t...
The genus Asparagus belongs to the Lily Family. It comprises about one hundred and fifty speci...
The cultural work in the asparagus bed during the first year consists in loosening the soil at f...
The treatment of the asparagus plantation during the second year does not differ materially from...
The third year cutting may begin in a moderate way, but too much should not be attempted. If all...
As generally understood, the chief object of cultivation is to kill weeds. This is an erroneou...
Although but one species of edible asparagus has found its way into general cultivation, many ...
As has been stated in a previous chapter, cutting should not begin until the plants have become ...
Contrary to the all but universal belief, asparagus is not a deep-rooted plant. In the wild stat...
As to the best distance between the rows and the plants in the rows there is a wide difference o...
Although the drying of asparagus is not much practiced in America, it is well worth the attentio...
Asparagus officinalis.--While the young sprouts of a few other species may be used as food...
The named varieties of asparagus of European origin are very numerous, as almost every locality ...
The fall clearing of the plantation is an important part of asparagus culture. As soon as the...
Asparagus is a gross feeder. There is hardly another plant in cultivation upon the vitality of...
The forcing of asparagus in various methods has been practiced for centuries, and is rapidly d...
The forcing of asparagus in hotbeds does not differ materially from that in the greenhouse, exce...
Forcing asparagus where it is grown in the field has a twofold advantage over removing the roots...
With florists the forcing of asparagus has this important advantage: that the income obtained fr...
Asparagus is subject to the attacks of a number of fungi, the most widespread and destructive ...
In answer to the many inquiries as to how asparagus can be grown to weigh two and three-fourths ...
The chief labor in asparagus culture is the cutting and bunching. As it is of the greatest imp...
The word "asparagus" is said to be of Persian origin. In middle Latin it appears as sparagus; ...
While a number of different insects feed upon the asparagus plant, there are only two species ...
It has long been observed that all of the asparagus plants in a bed do not produce seeds, owing ...
As in other details of asparagus culture, the methods of planting have undergone very material c...
During the entire process of cutting, sorting, bunching, and packing great care must be exercise...
All the cultivated varieties of asparagus are readily affected by the rust, although it has been...
A. medeoloides (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides), popularly known as Smilax.--For many years this has ...
The proper planting of the roots is the most critical point in asparagus culture, as upon the ma...
Throughout the Middle and Northern States, spring, as soon as the soil can be worked to good a...
In the tests made at the Missouri Experiment Station, Prof. J. C. Whitten found that it is much ...
Asparagus differs from most other vegetables in that it is a perennial, and when once planted pr...
The canning factory has made asparagus a vegetable for every day of the year instead of being a ...
When an asparagus field is badly infested with the rust the general appearance is that of ...
The principal causes of asparagus beds running out are that in the first place ten plants are se...
Salt is but little used now by commercial asparagus growers, though it has been recommended for ...
The asparagus plant begins to produce seed when two years old. When fully developed the stalks...
That strong, healthy, one-year-old plants are in every way to be preferred to two or three yea...
In some local markets asparagus is sold loose, by weight, in which case but little regard is pai...
Growing asparagus without transplanting is gradually finding many advocates among those who rais...
(Agromyza simplex) In a recent bulletin from the New York Experiment Station, Prof. F. A. Sir...
(Crioceris asparagi) This beetle is by far the most important enemy of the asparagus plant. I...
Asparagus can be propagated by division of the roots, but this method gives so unsatisfactory ...
As asparagus in its wild state is usually found growing in light and sandy soils along or near...
(Crioceris 12-punctata Linn) The presence of this insect in America was first detected in 1881...
To determine the comparative effects of manuring on different varieties of asparagus, and also t...