. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION 71 The first government work in agricul- ture was to introduce new plants, but of this early work, no doubt much of it im- portant to the country, only traces or legends remain. Few records of the various introductions are to be found, and hardly a trace of where they were planted. Mr. Ellsworth's idea was good, but the experi- ence of the past
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION 71 The first government work in agricul- ture was to introduce new plants, but of this early work, no doubt much of it im- portant to the country, only traces or legends remain. Few records of the various introductions are to be found, and hardly a trace of where they were planted. Mr. Ellsworth's idea was good, but the experi- ence of the past seven years has shown where the weakness lay. The seeds and plants collected by those in the diplomatic service were not gathered by trained men who knew the agricultural needs of the country, but were, in the great majority of cases, gathered by men who saw in a new plant some useful quality, without having the training necessary to find out whether it was capable of being adapted to our quite different conditions of labor, or to know in what part of the country it should be tried. An immense amount of valuable introduction work was done later by Mr. Saunders, who, for many years, had charge of the gardens and grounds of the Department of Agricul- ture, but no connected record of it exists. In 1870, the government made a notable introduction of cions of Russian apples. The work of persons not connected with government departments should not be for- gotten. Nurserymen and seedsmen have long been in the habit of introducing inter- esting plants from many countries. Many times they have introduced plants in ad- vance of the popular necessity for them, and the introductions have disappeared, to be introduced again later. Many citizens, from Washington down, have been influential in introducing plants. In later years the work of the late Professor Budd, of Iowa, and the late Charles Gibb, of Quebec, in introducing Russian fruits should not be overlooked, for they were pioneers in t
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