FRUIT DEPARTMENT— ASPARAGUS 
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ASPARAGUS 
This delicious and healthy vegetable should be 
found in every garden. Nothing can be more 
easily grown and no plant gives such a health- 
ful food for such little outlay. Set in the fall 
or spring with the crown of the plant about 
three inches below the surface of the ground. 
Ten to twelve inches by two feet is a good dis- 
tance to plant. 
Columbian 
Barr's Mammoth — The largest of all, is very 
early, and quite tender and delicious; light 
color. The yield is simply enormous. 
Columbian — A distinct variety of mammoth size, 
great yield and superior quality. Remarkable 
for the clear whiteness of its stalk which re- 
tains the clearness of its color until several 
inches above the surface. 
Conover's Colossal — A standard kind of first- 
class quality. Tender and high flavored; val- 
uable market and garden sort. 
Palmetto — Extensively grown for market on ac- 
count of earliness, large size and fine appear- 
ance. 
RHUBARB OR PIE PLANT 
This very desirable vegetable comes early in 
the spring. The large stems ol the leaves are 
used for pie-making and stewing. It is also 
valuable for medicinal purposes. A deep, rich 
soil is indispensable to secure large, heavy 
stalks. Plant in rows four feet apart, with 
the plants three feet distant. Set so that the 
crowns are about one inch below the surface. 
Top dress in the fall with stable manure and 
fork under in the spring. 
Rhubarb 
Linneaus — This variety produces a small stem 
of fine quality; early; excellent for cooking. 
Victoria — Very large and valuable for market. 
Early. 
