. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 95. The Hun- garian paprika as grown by Dr. R. H. Tme in South Carolina. Until this was taken up by the Bureau of Plant Indus- try all the pap- rika used in America was im- ported from Aus- tro-Hungary and other European Fig. 96. The prickly pear or Tuna (Opuntia Ficus-Indica), as sold on the streets and in the fancy fruit stores of this country. Hansen, made an extended trip through Russia and the steppes of Siberia in search of hardy fruits and drought-resistant forage plants, the result being the introduction of the Tur
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 95. The Hun- garian paprika as grown by Dr. R. H. Tme in South Carolina. Until this was taken up by the Bureau of Plant Indus- try all the pap- rika used in America was im- ported from Aus- tro-Hungary and other European Fig. 96. The prickly pear or Tuna (Opuntia Ficus-Indica), as sold on the streets and in the fancy fruit stores of this country. Hansen, made an extended trip through Russia and the steppes of Siberia in search of hardy fruits and drought-resistant forage plants, the result being the introduction of the Turkestan alfalfa plants. Mr. W. T. Swingle, on two separate trips, explored the oases of the Sahara for the best sorts of date palms, and unearthed a host of new and interesting forage and fruit plants in Algeria, with many of which various experimenters are now at work ; he studied and perfected the best method of sending over the caprifying insect that has since made Smyra fig culture a success in California, and started investigations of the pistachio industry in Sicily and Asia Minor, besides calling the attention of olive-growers to the dry-land olive culture of Tunis. Mr. C. S. Scofield spent a summer in Algeria collecting the seeds of a lot of promising legumi- nous plants that are now attracting interest as new fodder plants in California. At the same time he secured the best of the Kabili fig varieties that are now growing in the same state. The two expeditions of Mr. M. A. Carleton were made in search of cereals that would resist the rust and the extreme droughts of the great western plains, and the tons of seed wheat that were dis- tributed as the result of his trips have led to the establishment of the durum wheat industry in the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, and that is now attracting the atten- tion of the Californians as a possible solution of their serious wheat prob- lem. Mr. E. A. Bessey made a journey through the Caucasus after hardy grapes and cherrie
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