Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-01-26
FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT DI.
VISION INTRODUCING MANY
NEW VARIETIES.

Steadily, year by year, tho fc.,isr
seed plant bureau Of the department. Of
agriculture is introducing new var,c
ties Of useful vegetables and fruits I,
Americans, 50 the day is coming rap
idly when the farmer in this country
can pick from the crops Of tho world
the one best suited to his .anl and
climate.
Although begun in a systematic was.
and as distinct activity, IN 1897, this
division of the department Of agricul.
ture has barely touched the fringe 81
its possibilities. According to an arti
Gle in the National Geogra2hl. Maya.
zine, $1,000 different plants which have
come in, and have either died, OF are
now growing somewhere in tbis coun.
try, represent small beginning only
AID have merely helped to show the
girstneses Of the possibilities which
progress in agricultural research is
More than hundr,i varieties of the
magno have been brought to this coun.
try from Florida, Porto Rico ami IIaw.
ali, some of which fruited in this coun.
try have already attracted the atten.
ton Of the fancy fruit dealers, selling
at the extravagant price of so and rs
cents apiece.
The date is another exotic which has
been imported over a hundred varie.
ties of it now growing in the govern.
mental gardens in California and Ari.
iona, from which are being distributed
to prospective platters the suckers as
they grow.
The Japanese persimmon, too, has
fine possibilities, and another visitor
from the same land is the attractive
vegetable known as udo. The udo is
a near relative Of we'll known wild
plant in New England, the spikenar'i
but much larger plant. There are
many ways in which it is prepared by
both the Japanese and the foreigners
who live in Japan, but as salad o,
cooked in the same way in which as.
rank as one of the importantS9$...
paragus is cooked, it deserves to rank
as one of the important vegetables OF
the world. It is easy to grow; it does
not require replanting oftener than
once in nine or ten years; it caa b.
cropped in the autumn or in the spring
and it yields large crops of shoots
which are often two feet long and III
inch or more in diameter at the base
These brilliant white shoots are edible
to their very bases without the least
objectionable fibre, and not in this re-
spect like asparagus, Of which only
the tips are fit to eat.
OF course, from the narrow stand
point Of the asparagus grower w
should all eat asparagus, and he watch
es every sing that indicates any tend
ency on the part Of the public to con
sumo more Of his vegetable, and he i.
not often likely to look with favor OF
any rival. But let fancy prices b.
established by legitimate publiclL,
and the encouragement Of some of tn.
large hotels, and the growers of as
paragus will soon find out that there i.
money in growing the new vegetable
We can trust to final readjustment Of
things, once the new plant is thor
oughly established.
It was with this point in view thai
an arrangement was made with ths
National Geographic society, at its
last annual banquet to serve as on
of the courses the dasheen, which is tn.
root of large-leaved plant related t.
the Hawaiian taro. The guests of The
society were kind enough to pass judg
ment on this new introduction, deciding
it to be a valuable addition to tn.
menu, man even going so far as to de
clare that it surpassed the potato in ex
cellence.
The stimulus given to the cultivation
of this dasheen by this exhibition hal
been very great, and today thousand
have heard of it, and, if they saw il
offered on the menu of first class no
tel, would be much more likely to cal
for it than if they had never read Of
its peculiar adaptability to the mois
but well-drained lands Of the souther,
states.
M0BRIDGE MAN KILLED BY CARS
Aberdeen, Jan. 24.-P. y. Giorge, f:
Macedonian laborer, lies dead in til,
Wilson undertaking rooms, the victim
Of an accident which b.fcll him Will.
at work at the coaling station of