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AsPaRaGus.--Jhe following simple meih- od of cultigatng tllis tleiicious vegetable. is recommended by writer for the Montgomery Journal:

 There IS no vegetable in its season supe- rior to asparagus; and yet how rarely 1t is to be found on the table of housekeepers. never saw any one refuse to eat asparagus omelet, asparagus soup, or asparagus boiled and served hot with fresh butter. Will vou have an asparagus bed? If so, l will tell you how you may, and be sure, too, 10 have that vegetable in tlle greatest abundance. Ii ls all stuff about making deep bed, and lay mg the foundation of brick, and doing many other things that would deter one from under taking the job There Is no vegetable more easily raised, vet there is a general idea that it IS difficult But we give the plan:

 Select in your garden a light dry part for yoHr bed, which should be seven feet wide and the length of square in the garden; pre- pare the land as for the sowing of any other seed-the first row should be foot and half from the edge of the bed-thc next row two feet from 1t, and the third row two feet from that, which will leave that row foot and half from the opposite edge-this will give three rows lenglhwise the bed-sow your asparagus seed about the first of April, as you would beet seed, and keep the grass and weeds down the first year, which IS all you have 10 do.

 In the month of December, open trenches between the asparagus rows, and trench also on the edge of the bed about foot deep-throw the earth up by the side of the trenches, then fill the trenches full of strong stable manure, and draw the earth back on it, dressing of the whole bed handsomely

 In the sPfing yoHr asparagus will come up tempiingly; but do not cut any Keep the grass and weeds down, which will be the l second years work. In December, trench again as last year, m the same place and same way. The manure you put in them last l year, will he well rotted and suitable for q top dressing-fll again the trenches with strong stable manure, and dress as before i; and in the spring you may have your table well supplied; and every year after, the bed will get better and better, if you annually supply manure as have directed once cut stalk of asparagus ont of my bed one i inch and three quarters in diameter