We have not been able to see any marked superiority in the Conover’s
Colossal Asparagus over that in use long before Conover was born. Some
of the best samples of this new sort were sent to the exhibition of the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society a few years ago, but they were badly
beaten by the common sort, which was both larger and heavier, though it
laid no claim to being colossal. Cultivation will make colossal buds,
neglect will make but pigmies, in this as in everything else.
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