| John Rogers - 1839 - 372 páginas
...the alleys ; also trim the edges of the beds, and surface of the alleys regularly and even. Loosening the bed in this manner enables the shoots to rise in free growth, admits the air, rains, and sunshine, into the ground, and encourages the roots to produce buds of a handsome, full... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1841 - 888 páginas
...alleys ; also trim the •edges of the beds, and surface of the alleys regularly and even. Loosening the bed in this manner' enables the shoots to rise in free growth, admits the ar, rains, and sunshine, into the ground, mid encourages the roots to produce buds of a handsome, full... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 408 páginas
...then be raked level, lengthways, drawing off thorough earth and hard clods into the alleys. Loosening the bed in this manner enables the shoots to rise...ground, and encourages the roots to produce buds of a handsome, full size. The time for cutting asparagus ii from about the middle of April to the middle... | |
| Elliot G. Storke - 1859 - 832 páginas
...roots. Then make the surface of the beds even and equal, drawing off the rough earth, stones, etc., into the alleys; finish by stretching a line along...the fourth season after planting. The proper method 24 of cutting them is to scrape a little of the earth away from each shoot; then, with a sharp-pointed,... | |
| Gardening - 1861 - 170 páginas
...then be raked level, lengthways, drawing off the rough earth and hard clods into the alleys. Loosening the bed in this manner enables the shoots to rise...ground, and encourages the roots to produce buds of a handsome full size. The time for cutting asparagus is from about the middle of April to the middle... | |
| 1863 - 496 páginas
...the alleys ; finish by stretching a line along the edge of the beds, and trim them off neatly with a spade. Stirring the bed in this manner enables the...little of the earth away from each shoot; then, with a sharp pointed, long bladed knife, cut off the shoot slantingly, about three inches under tho surface:... | |
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