. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION 75 and resulted in the importation of a number of varieties of this valuable plant to serve as experi- mental material for his researches. Mr. Rolfs also. Fig. 98. The true Corsican citron. An American-grown fruit from the only piiyine plantation of this fniit yet estab- lished in America, that of Dr. Westlake. of Los Angeles. The cions were secured for the Division of Pomology by David Fairchild, his first piece of plant-introduction work. made a trip to Jamaica to study the cassava in- dustry, and there m
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION 75 and resulted in the importation of a number of varieties of this valuable plant to serve as experi- mental material for his researches. Mr. Rolfs also. Fig. 98. The true Corsican citron. An American-grown fruit from the only piiyine plantation of this fniit yet estab- lished in America, that of Dr. Westlake. of Los Angeles. The cions were secured for the Division of Pomology by David Fairchild, his first piece of plant-introduction work. made a trip to Jamaica to study the cassava in- dustry, and there made a collection of cassava varieties which is now established in Florida. A short investigation of the Alpine trial gardens of Austria was made last summer by Mr. Edgar Brown, who also secured for trial the Ladino clover of the irrigated valley of the Po. At the present time Mr. Frank N. Meyer, agricultural explorer of the Office, is in northern China, and from this region he is sending, week by week, cions and seeds of hardy fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and orna- mental plants that may be expected to have an important bearing on the agricultural industries of the Atlantic and middle western states. The government responsibility in plant introduction. It will be evident from what has been said that the aims of this Office are not at all identical with those of such a wonderful botanic garden as that of Kew, Berlin, or New York. It does not main- tain a collection of living plants, whether of practical value or not, but its funds are spent in importing for the use of experimenters throughout the country material with which they can work. Scarcely a day passes without some request being received for seed which is not carried by any seeds- man in the country. A potato-breeder in Vermont wants the new Solanum Commersonii from the wet lands in Uruguay to hybridize with the ordinary potato; a settler in southern Texas wants to try bamboos on the Rio Grande ; the representative o
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