SUPPLEMENT, 
INCLUDING NOVELTIES OF THIS YEAR AND VARIETIES OF RECENT INTRODUCTION 
WORTHY OF ESPECIAL MENTION. 
AGNIFICENT NEW ASPARAGUS. 
A VERY VALUABLE AND ENTIRELY DISTINCT VARIETY OF THIS 
HIGHLY ESTEEMED VEGETABLE. 
Every few years an Asparagus is offered with the claim that it is distinct and superior to existing sorts, but careful trial 
usually reveals the fact that it is new in name only, the supnvosed differences being due to methods of cultivation, nature of 
the soil or climatic conditions. Even in 
the very rare instances where a seedling 
has been produced having distinct and valu- 
able characteristics, not one has been found 
heretofore which was capable of uniformly 
transmitting its valuable features to its de- 
scendants; consequently when our attention 
was called to this variety we were greatly sur- 
prised at finding it well fixed and entirely dis- 
tinct from all others in the following particu- 
lars: 
It produces shoots which are white and 
remain so as long as fit for use and from 80 to 
90 per cent. of the plants come true from 
seed. This grand result has not come by 
chance, but is the legitimate outcome of years 
of patient work and careful selection by the 
originator, extending over eight generations 
from the original plant. 
Some fourteen years ago a single plant 
having white shoots was found growing ina 
large Asparagus grower’s field of Conover’s 
Colossal. As the plant happened to be seed 
bearing, seeds were saved and sown by them- 
selves. A small percentage of the plants 
came true and these were planted by them- 
selves and seed from them saved. This 
process was repeated until now fully 80 to 90 
per cent. of the plants produced from the seed 
we offer will be white. The small percentage 
of green plants that show in a lot of seedlings 
may be removed as fast as they appear, thus 
insuring a bed containing white plants only. 
In addition to the marvelous advantage of 
its white color, the Columbian Mammoth 
White Asparagus is even more robust} and 
vigorous in habit and throws larger shoots 
and fully as many of them as the Conover’s 
Colossal. When we add to these the immense 
advantage of its needing no earthing up in 
order to furnish the white shoots so much 
sought after, we think it evident that it is 
superior to any sort now in cultivation and 
that no Asparagus grower can afford to plant 
seed of any other kind. Our claims are not 
| mere theory, but are substantiated by actual 
experience. A field grown by one of the 
largest and best Asparagus growers in this 
country yielded an equal weight of cuttings 
with his best field of any other variety and brought 20 per cent. more, not in a fancy market or as a novelty, but at a canning 
factory, where it was put up undewa special brand and brought enough more to warrant the packers in paying extra for it. 
Market gardeners, growers for canners and amateurs should give this great acquisition 
a thorough trial, for we are confident that when once known it will be used to the exclu- 
sion of all other kinds. 
Per packet, 25c.; 0z., 60c.; 2 oz., $1.00; % Ib., $1.75; Ib., $6.00, postpaid. 
