1John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 6 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
...Logical) manner, prove that the green ends of asparagus, were designed by Nature, to be eat by...
2John Brown Cutting to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
...goodly child and two fine bundles of fresh asparagus. Item a dutch virgin—reputed tutress to...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Julien-Michel Guiard, with Franklin’s Note for a Reply, and Other Offerers of Remedies for the … (Franklin Papers)
...an infusion made from the boiled roots of asparagus, butcher’s broom, and saxifrage, mixed...
4February—1785 (Washington Papers)
Asparagus officinalis, asparagus, and
5[Diary entry: 12 February 1785] (Washington Papers)
Asparagus officinalis, asparagus, and
6Appendix: Meteorological Journal for Orange County, Virginia, 1 April–26 June 1786, and 18 January 1787 (Madison Papers)
(24) Asparagus first at dinner
7Notes of a Tour into the Southern Parts of France, &c., 3 March–10 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...4th. we have Windsor beans. They have had Asparagus ever since the middle of March. The 5th....
8Notes of a Tour through Holland and the Rhine Valley, 3 March–23 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
. Asparagus to-day at Moyenvic. The country is always either...
9Memorandum Books, 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Pd. 5. qts. milk 2/6—asparagus 8d.