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AsPARAGus.-Sow your asparagus beds with salt, broadcast, one to three pounds to the square yard This is known to be an admirable manule forit, and it is said to make It tenderer and greatly to improve its flavor. The editor of the American Agriculturist says that he never met with asparagus in the Ohio valley as tender and delicious as that grown on the sea shore or well manpred with salt. He says our asparagus, though large, is gen. elaliy tough and bitter. One reason for this doubtless is our bad habit of cutting it as soon as it peeps through the surface of the earth. It ought not to be cut until it rises to

 he height of three inches, and assumes a greenish color It is then tenderer and sweeter, Dolldr Farmer.