. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 91. Berseem (TritoUvm Alexan- drinum).. Fig. 90. Egyptian date palm In fiult at IniUo, California. Imported by Department of Agrienltnre In 188B. variety from Moravia, is now being given a practi- cal test by the brewers in St. Louis and California, and its uniform character and good yields on the Pacific coast have aleady led to its cultivation on a large scale. A new root crop from Porto Rico, the yautia (Figs. 114, 115, page 105, Vol. I), promi- nen
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 91. Berseem (TritoUvm Alexan- drinum).. Fig. 90. Egyptian date palm In fiult at IniUo, California. Imported by Department of Agrienltnre In 188B. variety from Moravia, is now being given a practi- cal test by the brewers in St. Louis and California, and its uniform character and good yields on the Pacific coast have aleady led to its cultivation on a large scale. A new root crop from Porto Rico, the yautia (Figs. 114, 115, page 105, Vol. I), promi- nently brought forward by Mr. Barrett, now of this Office, is to be practically tried in northern Florida and the Carolinas, in both of which places it has proved its ability to grow. The plant from which Japan makes her papers of unexcelled quality is growing in the plant-introduction garden in Cali- fornia (Fig. 92). The wood-oil tree of the Yang-tse valley has been imported from Han Kow, and there are on hand in California hundreds of plants with which to make the first trials of this interesting oil- producing plant, the product of which is imported into America in increasing quantities every year to be used for varnish and imitation rubber manu- facturing purposes. The hardy bamboos of the Orient have been imported, and, as far as the funds of the Office have allowed, these have been placed at several places in the South where the old cane- brakes," which are growths of a commercially worthless species of bamboo, indicate that the valuable kind from Japan may be expected to grow successfully. Answering an appeal from the rice- planters of the Carolinas, whose plantations have been devastated by a very serious disease, rices of the type of the famous Carolina Golden have been imported from the Orient, Africa, the West Indies and Italy, with the hope of finding one that will resist the disease. This hope has not yet been ful- filled, although there is one variety at least
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