Bismarck Daily Tribune

Great for Vegetables—R. D. Hoskins has demonstrated that asparagus can be grown in Bismarck as successfully as in any place. He has a bed 4x20 and his table has been abundantly supplied with the tender cuttings for ten days past, which is about as early as Minnesota and Wisconsin. He also has rhubarb stalks several feet long, and of the most thrifty and tender kind. His experiments prove that the proper way to protect the rhubarb plant in the spring and cause tender stalks is to place an open barrel around each hill. Current and gooseberry vines are in full bloom and those who pay just a little attention to the planting and care of shrubbery and fruit trees in this country will be amply rewarded. No country will produce finer small fruits than the Missouri slope.