. The history and distribution of sorghum. The an-nual area sown on theisland is only about 20acres. Since the originalimportation in 1851 noseed, except that sent byCollins, was ever broughtto the United States untilMay, 1908, when a fewseeds (S. P. I. Xo. 22913),secured on the island ofTsungming, were receivedby the Office of Seed andPlant Introduction of thisDepartment. These seedswere of poor quality andthe resulting plants didnot fully mature, but areapparently identical withsome forms of Amber nowgrown in this is, however, littledoubt of the independentAfrican origin of som
. The history and distribution of sorghum. The an-nual area sown on theisland is only about 20acres. Since the originalimportation in 1851 noseed, except that sent byCollins, was ever broughtto the United States untilMay, 1908, when a fewseeds (S. P. I. Xo. 22913),secured on the island ofTsungming, were receivedby the Office of Seed andPlant Introduction of thisDepartment. These seedswere of poor quality andthe resulting plants didnot fully mature, but areapparently identical withsome forms of Amber nowgrown in this is, however, littledoubt of the independentAfrican origin of someAmber forms. That form of kowliangwhich somewhat resemblesbroom corn is found alsoin Korea and Japan. Itwould be classed as verypoor brush in the UnitedStates. Some improved broom corn is grown in Japan, but it is prob-ably from seed originally secured in Australia, Europe, or the UnitedStates. Pacific Islands. The tropical islands of the Pacific show very few sorghums ornone at all. Some of the larger islands, like Java, lying near the. Fig. 9.—Plant of Chinese Report, 1854.) (From Patent 22578— Bui. 175—10- 0 Collins, 1865, p. 26 HISTOKY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SORGHUM. continent of Asia, have one or two varieties, apparently of Indian or American derivation. In Australia the standard varieties are all importations from the United States. Numerous native varieties from India and the British colonies in Africa have been tested in Australia recently and a few are likely to persist in cultivation, at least for some years. Europe. Pliny (TO A. D.) records that a variety of sorghum was intro-duced from India into Italy about ten years previously. Its cultiva-tion in Italy has ap- parently been con-t i n u o u s since theearliest introduction,and it was there thatthe name surgo, orsorgo, was first ap-plied to the the extensive com-merce of Greece andRome with Africaand Asia it is prob-able that other im-portations of sor-g h u m reached thenorthern sho
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