. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. TARO TEA 631 fingers in the poi, giving it a twirling motion, and dexterously convey it to the mouth. Poi is not con- sidered ready for use by the Hawaiians until it has fermented for one or two days. As a regctable.—The taro corm is also much used as a vegetable, being a good substitute for potatoes. As such it is steamed, boiled or baked. The young and tender leaves from the center of the growing taro plant are also used for food. When boiled they make an excellent pot-herb, not unlike spinach. The unopened floral spathes are also cooive
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. TARO TEA 631 fingers in the poi, giving it a twirling motion, and dexterously convey it to the mouth. Poi is not con- sidered ready for use by the Hawaiians until it has fermented for one or two days. As a regctable.—The taro corm is also much used as a vegetable, being a good substitute for potatoes. As such it is steamed, boiled or baked. The young and tender leaves from the center of the growing taro plant are also used for food. When boiled they make an excellent pot-herb, not unlike spinach. The unopened floral spathes are also cooived. Flour.—The manufacture of poi flour from the corm is an industry which has received some atten- tion. Taro in all forms being a most wholesome and food, and particularly easy of digestion, has commended itself as a health food. Practically the only way to put it on the market as such is in the form of flour, since the taro itself does not keep well. Taro flour, if pure, is simply the "root" cooked, dried, and ground to a powder. It is sold under various proprietary names. Enemies. There are no serious insect enemies of taro. A fungous disease known as " root-rot" is a somewhat serious hindrance to successful taro-growing, but may be controlled by judicious methods of culti- vation, including proper selection of hulls, rotation of crops, fallowing and fertilization. [For further notes on taro, see Index, Vol. I.] TEA. Camellia Thm, vars. Link. (Thca Sinensis, T. Bohea, and T. riridis, Linn.). Tcrnstrwmiacea. Figs. ; also Figs. 173, 174. By Charles U. Shepard. Tea is a shrub grown for its leaves, which are used in the preparation of the well-known beverage by the same name. It sometimes becomes a tree, reaching a height of thirty feet; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate and gla- brous, sometimes pubescent beneath ; flowers white and fragrant, one to one and one-half inches broad; petals five ; stame
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