. The history and distribution of sorghum. atShanghai. It was ob-tained from the is-land of Tsungming(Chungming), lyingin the mouth of thethe Yangtze River, inlatitude 32° north. Asingle seed is said tohave germinated inthe garden at Toulon,where the seed wassent. The resultingcrop was secured at ahigh price by LouisVilmorin, of Vilmo-rin-Andrieux & Co.,well-known seedsmenof Paris. This seed,sold widely in Eu-rope and afterwardsin the United States,was the foundationof the variety long-known as Chinesesorgo (fig. 9). In March, 1851,Mr. Leonard AVray,an English sugarplanter, arrived in Natal, S
. The history and distribution of sorghum. atShanghai. It was ob-tained from the is-land of Tsungming(Chungming), lyingin the mouth of thethe Yangtze River, inlatitude 32° north. Asingle seed is said tohave germinated inthe garden at Toulon,where the seed wassent. The resultingcrop was secured at ahigh price by LouisVilmorin, of Vilmo-rin-Andrieux & Co.,well-known seedsmenof Paris. This seed,sold widely in Eu-rope and afterwardsin the United States,was the foundationof the variety long-known as Chinesesorgo (fig. 9). In March, 1851,Mr. Leonard AVray,an English sugarplanter, arrived in Natal, South Africa. Soon after, his attentionwas attracted to numerous varieties of sorgo called imphee, whichthe Zulus or Kafirs cultivated for the sweet stems. These peopleknew nothing of the art of expressing the juice by mechanical means,but simply chewed the peeled stems. After considerable search succeeded in getting together sixteen varieties under their na-tive names. These he brought to Europe about 1854 and arranged to 175. Fig. 13.—Head of Holcus cafer, after Arduino, 17 30 HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SORGHUM. have grown in various countries. From these varieties have descended most of the sorgos now grown in the United States. With these two importations was inaugurated a long series of thorough and expensive experiments in making sugar and alcohol from sorghum,which continuedwithout interruptionfor thirty the progressof similar work inAmerica, large quan-tities of the seed ofour leading sac-charine varietieswere sent from here toSpain and other partsof southern these norMr. Wrays originalimportations seem tohave persisted therein cultivation aspure varieties. At the presenttime few varietiesare to be found inEurope, and theseare usually verybadly mixed. Arather large, some-what saccharinevariety, with spike-lets much as inGooseneck sorgo, butwith a compact, ob-ovate, erect, blackhead, is found inGermany, France,and Austria. It is Fig
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