Show Vegetable with Old Lineage Asparagus Is tho aristocrat of the food plants Nono other has so dlsUn1 j gulshed a lineage for Its records reach + auj back almost to the beginning of So thentlc history It Is mentioned bd the comic poet Cratlnus who died about 425 n C Tho Romans hold t asparagus In tho highest esteem the t elder Cato treating at length In hIs 1 Do ro Uustica still extant of the t i virtues and correct cultivation of the t plant Pliny writing about CO A D has a groat deal to say of asparagus Ho says Of all tho products of your garden your chief caro should be asparagus as-paragus |