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Show STUDY VEGETABLE GROWTH I Botanist From Agricultural Bures.xt J M Coming to Utah, Arizona and M New Mexico for Purpose. , M Cambridge, Mass, Jan. C It Is an M nounced here that the Carnegie in J H stltute, which has Just given 52SOO to ,. IH Harvard observatory, has set aside j H a fund ot (iOOO with which to start re , H search Into the botany ot American HJ desert plants. F. V, Colvllle, botanist H for tho United States Department of, 1 Agriculture, Is to be sent to Utah, Ari zona and New Mexico, accompanied by HJ Mr. McDougal, ot the New York bo IH tnnlcnl gardens, to select a site for a H desert laboratory and appoint a resident M Investigator to study the vegetable ' H growths of arid regions of the South H went. When this Is established the In "" T" HJ vcstlgator will devoto his time to an ex H hnustlve Investigation Into the proper ' H ties of the different desert plants, with H attention to their agricultural and com ' H mcrclal possibilities. It Is felt that this i field ot botanical research has been too long neglected, nnd that America, la i overlooking something which may yield , H her immenso wealth in crops through HJ tho arid regions, where In placed lrrl- ' H gating Is next to Impossible I HJ |