A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass . V * - : . > • ? - .-<?? ? i?. I >/ 15 one of which is reproduced. (Plate n.) The plants being young andsmall, cuttings can not be made for several years to come, when somevery interesting questions regarding the industry will be settled. The large tract at Jupiter, to which reference has been made, wasset out by one Peter St
A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass . V * - : . > • ? - .-<?? ? i?. I >/ 15 one of which is reproduced. (Plate n.) The plants being young andsmall, cuttings can not be made for several years to come, when somevery interesting questions regarding the industry will be settled. The large tract at Jupiter, to which reference has been made, wasset out by one Peter Stone, during the few years immediately followingthe close of the war. I am informed that he Avas an eccentric characterwho rushed into a number of schemes for making a rapid fortune,thought at the time to be more or less chimerical, sisal culture beingone of them. The tract now belongs to ex-Governor Gleason, of EauGallie, Fla, Of the Indian River country I can not speak from personal investi-gation. Plants or leaves have been sent to me from various points onthe river, in reply to correspondence, some of the specimens beingfalse sisal, and some the true sisalana. Mr. C. T. McCarty, of Ankona,in St. Lucie Sound (Indian River), has supplied me with valuable inforniation on the subject, accompa
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