ASPAR AGIN

A white crystallisable substance obtainf'l trom the expre ed juice of asparagus. It has been '■""»ASPARAG«Be n medicine. US. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A genus of spiny plants, many of winch are shrubs, and climb upon other plants. They all have minute scale-like leaves small white or greenish flowers, and berried fruit; very often they prouace short leafle branches, in room of leaves Asparagus officinal is, one of the few species which neither climb nor bear spines, is found wild occasionally on the seashore near Weymouth. The succulent shoots which it throws up from its underground eyes are the asparagus of the market gardeners. It is not a little singular, that alhough this plant has been an object of careful cultivation (or so many years, it should never yet have produced a [s. 108]