ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Study of Asparagus Sprengeri (from a drawing by Ethel 



Roskruge) . . . . . . Frontispiece 



Bundles of Asparagus as Prepared for Cooking ... 3 



Plant of Asparagus Officinalis ..... 5 



Roots of One-year-old Asparagus Plant . . . .7 



Roots of Two-year-old Asparagus Plant ... 9 



Roots of Three-year-old Asparagus Plant . .13 



Cornish Spade . . . . . .21 



Asparagus Sprengeri . • . . . . .41 



Asparagus Plumosus . . . . . .43 



Asparagus Tenuisslmus ...... 47 



Seakale ........ 65 



Seakale Root and Cutting . . . . .68 



Celery ........ 80 



Celeriac . . . . . . . • 93 



Bundle of Salsify . . . . . • 95 



Salsify Roots . . . . . . .96 



Bundle of Scorzonera . . . . .98 



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