. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 74 IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION of plant introduction a great wealth-creating power, ami. convinced of the good he could do for his country by aiding its progress, he spent the r greater part of his time and en- ergy during the years of 1896, 1898-99, 1901-02, and 1903 in making, at his own expense, a tour of reconnaissance of the world in the interest of the Office of Plan
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 74 IMPORTANCE OF PLANT INTRODUCTION of plant introduction a great wealth-creating power, ami. convinced of the good he could do for his country by aiding its progress, he spent the r greater part of his time and en- ergy during the years of 1896, 1898-99, 1901-02, and 1903 in making, at his own expense, a tour of reconnaissance of the world in the interest of the Office of Plant Introduction. He took the writer with him as his agri- cultural explorer, and estab- lished correspondents in most of the principal points of plant in- terest in the world. This list of correspondents is one of the great assets of the Office, enabling it to secure quickly from any re- gion the seeds or plants desired for hosts of experiments which the Office is pressed by private experimenters to take up. In the course of these six years of travel a mass of material was imported from all parts of the world, aggregating at least 1,200 .-. ^^.. J , different selected things that Tipby"he* Seemed Worthy of trial in Amer- ica. Many of these are now form- ing subjects of study and exper- iment in different parts of the country and have been alluded to under the successes achieved or the problems now being worked out by the Department specialists. The profession of agricultural exploration has been originated and developed by the Office of Plant Introduction. The first explorer, Mr. N. Fig. 95. The Hun- ganan paprika as grown by Dr. R. H. True in South Carolina. Until w a s taken of Plant Indus- try all the pap- rika used in America was im- ported from Aus- tro-Hungary and other European Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrat
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