Asparagus Culture

Author : F. M. Hexamer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536890211
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Asparagus, Its Culture for Home Use and Market written by F. M. Hexamer and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultivation of asparagus for home use as well as for market is so rapidly increasing, and reliable information pertaining to it is so frequently asked for, that a book on this subject is evidently needed. While all works on vegetable culture treat more or less extensively on its cultivation, so far there has been no book exclusively devoted to asparagus published in America. Asparagus is one of the earliest, most delicious, and surest products of the garden. Its position among other vegetables is unique, and when once planted it lasts a lifetime; it may be prepared for use in great variety, and may be canned or dried so as to be available at any time of the year; and yet in the great majority of farm gardens it is almost unknown. The principal reason for this neglect is based upon the erroneous idea that asparagus culture requires unusual skill, expense, and hard work. While this was true, in a measure, under old-time rules, modern methods have so simplified every detail connected with the cultivation of asparagus as to make it not necessarily more expensive and laborious than that of any other garden crop. To describe and make clear these improved methods, to demonstrate how easily and inexpensively an asparagus bed may be had in every garden, and how much pleasure, health, and profit may be derived from the crop have been the principal inducements to writing this book. In a popular treatise on so widely distributed a vegetable as asparagus, the cultivation of which had been brought to a high state of development many centuries before the Christian era, there is little opportunity for originality. All that the author has endeavored in this little volume has been to collect, arrange, classify, and systematize all obtainable facts, compare them with his own many years' experience in asparagus culture, and present his inferences in a plain and popular manner. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface I. Historical Sketch II. Botany III. Cultural Varieties IV. Seed Growing V. The Raising of Plants VI. Selection of Plants VII. The Soil and Its Preparation VIII. Planting IX. Cultivation X. Fertilizers and Fertilizing XI. Harvesting and Marketing XII. Forcing XIII. Preserving Asparagus XIV. Injurious Insects XV. Fungus Diseases XVI. Asparagus Culture in Different Localities