CULTURAL VARIETIES 21 
and contained forty-eight stalks of nine inches in 
length and remarkably uniform in size. It was taken 
on March 30th from a field of fifty acres, near 
Charleston, S. C. But the greatest point in its favor 
is its comparative security from the attacks of rust. 
Purple Top and Green Top.—These were the only 
FIG. I2—BUNCH OF PALMETTO ASPARAGUS 
distinct sorts in cultivation before the introduction of 
Conover’s Colossal, but are now almost unknown to 
the trade and cultivators. 
EUROPEAN VARIETIES 
The named varieties of asparagus of European 
origin are very numerous, as almost every locality in 
which asparagus is cultivated extensively and success- 
fully has given its name to a strain more or less dis- 
