The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-19
THE SUNFLOWER IS LOGICALLY OUR
NATIONAL FLOWER.

The sunhower might appropriate
ona flower of originated here the regions
the plains Specimens OF taken Europe by the
early Spanish explorers and first cultivated the Old World
in the gardens Madrid The plant
indians long before the days of Columbus Champaign when he
visited Georgian Bay 1915 found the aborgnes there growing
it and using the oil made
raised chiefly for the sake OF the food which seeds supplied To
SO high point had been developed by the natives this
tinent that during the three half which elapsed
extent merely retaining the original size which distinguished
it from its wild original
The Department Agriculture agitatng question
sunhower culture believing that there much the
dustry the this country persuaded
up In Russia the plant of economic Importance seeds
being eaten IN immense quantities. raw or roasted just we eat
The oil obtained by pressing the seeds is also widely used
article Of diet The stalks and oil cakes make excellent
der the leaves are employed as substitute tor tobacco and the
fibre of the stalks has high value The oil of the sunfower
widely employed Russia where the frequent religious easts
strict the use OF meat there are three principal varieties cu
the Cars with large white seeds, which
said yield OIL with smaller black Seeds which
considered the best for eating and
form with striped Seeds used both for eating and the production
of oil
sunhower has greater Russia
than other country Even by the upper classes the seeds
much the larger and finer being equal to most nuts
palatab and whoesomeness While the poorer and less per-
seeds furnish which somewhat urbd and bitter the
ably The stalks the
sunfower highly priced fuel being in parts OF the
pre the only available substitute for wood to burn Sunhowe oil
general properties of olive oil than
other known substitute OF late when purified has been
color and decidedly paaabe In crude state it used by painters
very great being mixed with cheap paints and
cake left the extraction OF the oil by extremely
rich being this the maize cake or nseed cake
plant used for fodder and high
~ nutritious.
One of the many OF utilizing the seeds practised in
Europe where kind OF bread made
them cheap cigars made from the leaves OF the
properly cured the leaves make fair for
they employed extent than generally
thought and with equal quantity of tobacco
pipe smoking The sunfower
peculiar tobacco which is much liked by smo
Cheap often aduerated with sunower leaves
China stalks which fine, silky and
silk fabrics and is believed with the
hinery might be utilized with much profit this
1t interesting fact that the OF sunfower
in this country is called the Russian Farmers that
otng quickly the seeds OF this plant which
encourage lay Paper has been made from the
talks but the treee where the sunfower most
ensively grown their highest value is for fuel.
Though value OF the sunower has been but
emily subject OF aesthetic value has long been
In the borders of roads and railroads
frequently miles with the blossoms, which August
nd September when the flowers full bloom. feature
+ the prairie anscape These the large flowers
gardens purposes but smaller variety
which grows wild IL