New crops for the new world
By: edited by Charles Morrow Wilson.
Publisher: The Macmillan company
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Agriculture -- Tropics.; Agriculture -- Latin America.
Other titles: Crops for the new world.
Notes: "First printing."
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by C. M. Wilson.; title: The undeveloped field of tropical fruits, by Wilson Popenoe.; title: Maize in the new world, by  Edgar Anderson.; title: The fashioning of livestock breeds, by A. O. Rhoad.; title: Palm oils and waxes, by Miriam L. Bomhard.; title: Rubber returns to Latin America, by W. N. Bangham.; title: Cinchona, the "fever tree," by Wilson Popenoe.; title: Drug and medicinal crops, by E. C. Higbee and Atherton Lee.; title: Biological control of insect pests, by C. P. Clausen.; title: Forest resources of tropical America, by Arthur Bevan.; title: Silks from South America, by G. E. Adames.; title: Bamboos in the new world, by Atherton Lee.; title: Peppers for the Americas, by A. T. Erwin.; title: Flowers for the new world, by B. Y. Morrison.; title: Cane sugar production, by P. Honig.; title: Introducing American plants to the Americas, by B. Y. Morrison.; title: Launching new crops for the Americas, by V. C. Dunlap.