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Show Leaves Are Sweeter than Sugar are only slightly sweet, but have the peculiar properly of making tlnh sourest sour-est substances, sii'ii as limes, lemo::, unripe fruits or vim-gar, eaten wiihin '"J hours ir so afterward seem :ii:e;:e-I :ii:e;:e-I v sweet. The United States department of agriculture has received from the consul con-sul at Asuncion. I'araguay. several ounce's of dried leaves and a small quantity of seed of a wild plant that is about ISO times as sweet as sugar, i It is called kna leo by the natives, and j its botanical name is stevia ielauli- ana. Another strange plant is the ag- bnyun (synsopalum dule'ferum) of southern JCiferia, the fruits of which j |