“Asparagus. The first sprigs of Herbs before unfolded unto leaves, and the youngest and tenderest branches that are eatable, are called Asparagus.” Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary.—See also Suidas in Voce, Galenus de Alim. Facult. Humelbergius, ap. Apul. de Med. Hist. c. 84. Our author’s account of the Asparagi is abridged from Galen. He remarks, that the young shoots of the cabbage, called Cymæ, are particularly tender. Apicius directs to prepare them with cumin, salt, old wine, and oil; to which pepper, borage, and the like may be addded. / On the Asparagi, see Athenæus, Deipn. lib. ii. / The Plant now commonly known by the name of Asparagus or Sparrow-grass, is said by Simeon Seth to be so nutritious, that it deserves to hold an intermediate place between pot-herbs and flesh.
In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for any important legislation.
From these observations we conclude that we have the following metatheorem. Metatheorem 3: If φ is a theorem of second-order monadic predicate logic, then trs'(φ) is a theorem of our present conceptualist logic.
What crop(s) to plant, how much area to devote to each crop, and how much risk to take with respect to rainfall during the season are some of the decisions that must be made.
