20 ASPARAGUS 
and even when twelve to fifteen inches long are per- 
fectly tender and of a delicate light green color. 
/Tub.—Originated in New Hampshire several years 
ago, and was introduced by Joseph Breck & Sons, 
Boston, Mass. Although not generally catalogued, it 
is a distinct and valuable variety that has made a 
decided record for itself in the tests of the Kansas Ex- 
periment Station, where its yield, by weight, was 
greater than any other. 
Mammoth.—This is a somewhat indefinite term, as 
almost any prominent seedsman and grower who has a 
particularly good and large strain of asparagus suffixes 
it to his own name. Among the best known of these 
are Vick’s Mammoth, Maule’s Mammoth, Prescott’s 
Mammoth, etc. 
Moore’s Cross-bred.—This originated with J. B. 
Moore, who for twenty years was awarded the first 
prize on asparagus at the exhibitions of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, at one of which the 
weight of twelve stalks was 4 pounds 64% ounces. It 
retains the head close until the stalks are quite long, 
and is of uniform color, while for tenderness and 
eating quality it is excelled by none. Itis particularly 
recommended for cultivation in New England. 
Palmetto.—A variety of Southern origin, but suit- 
able for the North also. At the South it is somewhat 
earlier than Conover’s Colossal, but its great advantage 
is that it is almost destitute of, what dealers call, culls, 
nearly all shoots being of a uniform and large size. 
The bunch from which the engraving (Fig. 12) was 
made measured twenty-two inches in circumference, 
