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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

Author: F. M. Hexamer

Release Date: March 14, 2010 [EBook #31643]

Language: English

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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

F. M. HEXAMER

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY
1914

_Printed in U. S. A._

[Illustration: BEGINNING OF THE ASPARAGUS INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE vi
I. Historical Sketch 1
II. Botany 4
III. Cultural Varieties 17
IV. Seed Growing 26
V. The Raising of Plants 30
VI. Selection of Plants 38
VII. The Soil and Its Preparation 43
VIII. Planting 49
IX. Cultivation 61
X. Fertilizers and Fertilizing 72
XI. Harvesting and Marketi