Show vegetable with old lineage asparagus Is the aristocrat of the food plants none other has so distin a lineage tor its records reach back almost to the beginning of au history it Is mentioned the comic poet Cratl nus who died about the romans hold asparagus in the highest esteem the elder cato treating at length in his de re rustica still extant ol 01 the virtues and correct cultivation of the plant pliny writing about 60 A D has a great deal to say of asparagus he says of all the products of your garden your chief care should be as |