Asparagus, Its Culture For Home Use and For Market

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Author

Hexamer, F. M. (Fred Maier)

Title

Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history

Credits

Produced by Tom Roch, Matt Whittaker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Asparagus

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31643

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31643

Release Date

March 14, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ASPARAGUS — ITS CULTURE FOR HOME USE AND FOR MARKET — A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PLANTING, CULTIVATION, HARVESTING, MARKETING, AND PRESERVING OF ASPARAGUS, WITH NOTES ON ITS HISTORY AND BOTANY — BY
2. 2.F. M. HEXAMER — ILLUSTRATED — Printed in U. S. A.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.PREFACE — ASPARAGUS
6. 6.I — HISTORICAL SKETCH
7. 7.II — BOTANY — ORNAMENTAL SPECIES — EDIBLE SPECIES
8. 8.III — CULTURAL VARIETIES — AMERICAN VARIETIES — EUROPEAN VARIETIES — VARIETY TESTS
9. 9.IV — SEED GROWING
10. 10.V — THE RAISING OF PLANTS — SOWING THE SEED WHERE THE PLANTS ARE TO REMAIN — GOOD CROPS TWO YEARS FROM SEED — POT-GROWN ASPARAGUS PLANTS
11. 11.VI — SELECTION OF PLANTS — MALE AND FEMALE PLANTS — PRODUCT FROM FIFTY PLANTS EACH, MALE AND FEMALE
12. 12.VII — THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION — PREPARATION OF THE GROUND
13. 13.VIII — PLANTING — DISTANCE TO PLANT — DEPTH OF PLANTING — MANNER OF PLANTING — PLACING THE ROOTS
14. 14.IX — CULTIVATION — CARE DURING THE FIRST YEAR — CARE DURING THE SECOND YEAR — CARE DURING THE THIRD AND FUTURE YEARS — FALL TREATMENT — RENOVATING OLD ASPARAGUS BEDS
15. 15.X — FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZING — SALT AS A FERTILIZER
16. 16.XI — HARVESTING AND MARKETING — CUTTING — SORTING AND BUNCHING — MARKETING
17. 17.XII — FORCING — FORCING IN THE GREENHOUSE — FORCING IN HOTBEDS AND FRAMES — FORCING IN THE FIELD
18. 18.XIII — PRESERVING ASPARAGUS — CANNING — DRYING
19. 19.XIV — INJURIOUS INSECTS — THE COMMON ASPARAGUS BEETLE [A] — THE TWELVE-SPOTTED ASPARAGUS BEETLE — THE ASPARAGUS MINER — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.XV — FUNGUS DISEASES — RECOGNITION OF THE RUST — METHODS OF TREATING THE RUST — ASPARAGUS LEOPARD SPOT
21. 21.XVI — ASPARAGUS CULTURE IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES — ASPARAGUS IN NEW ENGLAND — ASPARAGUS ON LONG ISLAND — ASPARAGUS IN NEW JERSEY — ASPARAGUS IN THE SOUTH — ASPARAGUS CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA — ASPARAGUS IN FRANCE
22. 22.INDEX

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