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Show Slllti.IlF jlOr NTfVW' PlfltS I Wonder. Being Accomplished by Our Agricultural Explorers. Many I I W & ,jL1VfY A Novelties Added to Our List of Vegetables, Fruits, and Cereals mmL' ne Bache : : " ! ' : 1 H K , to date. Una invested B!' J "ninnt Introductions" HL? ft sSj out new veKe-wiWMJ'' veKe-wiWMJ'' ,n S tc In various mm' ifriS f and starting their ?6 own country. The an- fcn;irady derived by us from T?haao is well over $10,-.f $10,-.f jhB enterprise may bo iK Sf fairly profitable. It iH&'S! help from private B&S&orthy anions whom is jmmn0lS.nr rhicago. a man of (Erfbroir of-o has made jour-trercmote jour-trercmote corners of the h o""ful plants. On aBtefc trips he was accompanied nirf Plant Introduction in Yr,t o' agriculture. in Question Is in many ro-JHKnKlv ro-JHKnKlv - picturesque. The iHShSh Washington from ail JE3ote. are sometimes trees WMWt f'inre of ton they take the HE?t bundles of sticks, which I-Rlifl ready for uso In graft-lKriv' graft-lKriv' he wrapped with waxed Ky Solswrc. and done np mWf Mr i the case of sraftlns PCln tin tubes, each stick JHKm ?.nds with wax. to prevent Jnd tljus keep the buds jELbe it was that Mr. Falrchlld afMJn not long ago, budwood Jm almond, which, grafted In ffBrMds fair t0 Produce all the lL W of that variety so JEd by confectioners, so thai obliged to Import them T'TlkewiFC T dates, for Arizona. 'iBfcwInn gulf and Saharan oases, lBKw"a now airalfa. which has 3Kd southwest t n anAolher oBtintera are asking for seed In Meyer, who recently returned IK years' trip through Korea iErn China. In search of cold-SH cold-SH md jtrasses. has just been MJ to wander through lit-JM- parti of Asia, including '.and pick "P what he can in aVwnr and valuablo plants. His BvTns the most profitable ever SmTinr agricultural explorer. re IB-frdia in the discovery and se-MfcuBdreds se-MfcuBdreds of hitherte unfam liar inel adlng 'a cabbage that WiJSunds and a radish as big jjXkbea Weighing Pound. iKTnd vegetables wo are accus-Htesoclate accus-Htesoclate bigness with coarse-iKbls coarse-iKbls cabbage Is almost devoid Kinable odor when cooked. Llke-jHkve Llke-jHkve nothing superior In texture Ktbe huso peaches, weighing a fc, which Mr. Meyer dlscov-imS& dlscov-imS& province of Shantung, ob-Ttmdwood ob-Ttmdwood surreptitiously from . Wtt priest, who yielded to the , bf J2. cash In hand. Per, with half ft dozen Chlna-tTi Chlna-tTi transport his supplies and to might correct in the -way iiterlal.' journeyed through re-t re-t previously visited by a white traveled over 2000 miles on hi most important part of his i to visit (as Is the custom 'of tl explorers) the market towns, kie such fruits, vegetables or uels of the soil s might seem jdniar and of special deslrable- . the agricultural products of H are sure to be found for i.'rowket towns, whre they are conveniently for Inspection. M the work of tr) explorers ir, because they aro thus en-fcjy en-fcjy to pass In revleyr all the ; -fruits, etc. grown in the re-jo. re-jo. plek up what seems new and : excellence. Necossaruy. it is fn along while that an entire-d.of entire-d.of fruit oh vegetable turns ;.the explorers are looking for r. varieties of plants already I for example, in the case of Nach above mentioned, tr, Meyer came across the i market in Shantung, the next rf to ascertain where It wns bli was quickly learned, ateo ftAt 100,000 of these peaches Md annually to the court at til. In tru,th, a royal poach jfroy to be eaten by .the emr m.houiehold. Next was the Jrtalning a few sticks of thb Hwood, which, when It had Pd from the Buddhist priest WDer described, was suitably Mhlpped to Washington. We Towing those peaches In this ifore longr, and doubtless they pretty price. Sorghum Oame. WW Important, when new va-ruseful va-ruseful plants are fourfd. to ,.?" thjy are grown and har-iww har-iww the products are stored. have an obvious bearing up-f up-f of euccess with the crop. Accordlnglj', copious gen Points are made; and the gwught Into requisition to help national data in a pictorial giants are introduced through t.H Fl- TnuB H with ".fetched from China, which, it only a few years, - Mfyorth to us $40.000,000 per annum. Likewise with the alfalfa and drought-proof grasses which Explorer N. E. Hansen brought from the dry steppes of Asiatic Russia. And the same with macaroni wheat that wonderful grain which, remarkable for the great size. of its heads and for the percentage of gluten its kernels contain, represents a value to us of $20,000,000 a year, immense nroas of the west, too dry for ordinary wheats, now planted with It. Macaroni Wheat. The macaroni wheat problem was studied out in Russia by another agricultural agricul-tural explorer, Mark A. Carleton, who, when presuaded to the value of the variety, va-riety, sent a few bushels of It to the United States. These vore distributed among several experiment stations in different dif-ferent states for trial. The grain having- proved both productive and promising, promis-ing, enough of it tor use as . seed was placed in the hands of selected fanners, who gave a written guarantee to devote a certain area to' its cultivation. Thus,' being raised on a considerable, scale, it, soon found its way to market and to seed dealers-, whp could be counted upon to distribute it. Meanwhile the secretary of agriculturo had ordered a shipment of 2000 bushels of macaroni wheat from Russia, and the new grain wns placed within reach of anybody who might want to grow It. This is substantially the course of procedure pro-cedure through which any new plant introduced in-troduced into the United States must pass. Most of them, for one reason or another, do not -prove satisfactory on trial and are thrown out: the exceptional one is accepted and cultivated. Giant Eadish. The giant radish from Chlnn, for example,- which can be planted in August, and grown Into November, yielding an appetizing fresh table vegetable throughout through-out the winter, Ib highly recommended by Dr. Fairchild for our kitchen gardens. Seeds of it can already be obtained from some seedsmen. A Japanese varietv of rice, contributed by Explorer S. A. Knapp, Is proving an immense success. It has revolutionized rice-growing in Louisiana and Texas, where the bulk of that cereal grown in that country is produced. A great advantage ad-vantage it has Is that it dooti not crack. Already it Is worth at least $2,000,000 a year to us, 11. has played Its part In raising the value of land in the coast sections of the two states mentioned from 52 to $-10 an acre, and In the increase of the output of rice from 175,000,000 pounds to 650.000.000 pounds. Explorer W. T. Swingle, who brought date trees from Sahamn oases for the southwest a few years ago has likewise fetched from Africa, Italy and Asia Minor the wild fig trees on which alone the Insects In-sects which fertilize cultivated figs are able to subsist; and, to make the Job complete, ho has Imported tho insects also. Thanks to which combination, California Cali-fornia 13 now sending the choicest of figs to eastern markets by the carload. Hulloss Oats. Among othor new plants recently Imported Im-ported into this country by Meyer and other explorers are a hull-less oat and a hull-less burley. both from China; a cabbage cab-bage that grows on a tall stalk; gourds, grown on trellises, which are a, palatable vogetablo when young; a blue raspberry from India; peppers of unfamiliar kinds, from tropical America; a Japanese reed, suitable for mats: a little watermelon tho size of a grapefruit (from Roumania), which ought to recommend itself for restaurants res-taurants and clubs; a Chlnenn tree that boara wine-colored frultB resembling strawberries; a walnut witn a thin shell liko that of a peanut; somo brand now varieties of potatoes from tho archipelago of Clilloe, off the coast of Chile, where tho potato is supposed to have originated, and a number of choice species of bam-boos. The bamboos, by the way. are being propagated on a considerable scale In tho experimental gardens maintained by the govcrnmont plant bureau at Clilco, Cal. Before long, according to present plans, groves of the best varieties will be estab-llshcd estab-llshcd in various parts of the south; and. I when they have had time to develop, manufacturers will he Invited to take a look at them, and will be supplied with material from them in sufficient quapti-tloa quapti-tloa for trial in the making of barrel hoops, ladders, trays, furniture and evor so many other thingB which bamboo wood l good for. An yet, In this country, we are sadly Ignorant of ,the usefulness of the bamboo. It ought to be mentioned, (in conclusion, conclu-sion, that every consignment of introduced intro-duced plants undergoes careful examination examina-tion by the bureau of entomology on arrival, ar-rival, to make, sure that it carries neither Injurious Insects nor objectionable fungi. Any insects found are duly identified. til The inspection for fungi is performed Sfll by the official mycologist of the- planet rl bureau. Mrs. Flora Wambaugh Patterson. ImmM For each bundle or package rccolved a IIH card Is made out and filed, and in this fH way the history of every plant sent in le rilH kepi for ftiture reference. iH |