Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1911 — GROWING ASPARAGUS. [ARTICLE]

GROWING ASPARAGUS.

Asparagus may be started from seed and come into size for table use at the third year. Seed may be planted as late as mid-summer. It requires about six weeks for the seed to germinate and come up. The young plants may be cultivate* tn rows as other garden vegetable* and set tn permanent rows or beds this tall or next spring The asparagus plant is doubly useful The young ahoots can be used for food and the foliage branches for decoration. Sprays of asparagus aid eqnaled by few other plant* for their pleasing effect in decoration. The plant* ar* vdnr hardy, will *nd°wni thrive la one place for tea to twenty J ~Texas rank* sixth 1* the lumber in dustry of the United State* an* **o- - in the production of yellow ptffq.