Word: caning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Goodale and Mr. D. Ames, of the Harvard Botanic Garden, has just returned from a visit to Cuba where they have been examining the subject of the "sending" of the sugar cane. They have had an exceptional opportunity for investigating the flowers of the plant in January, through the kindness of Mr. E. F. Atkins, proprietor of a large sugar estate at Soledad, near Cienfuegos. Most of the flowers, however, were found to be too immature, but it was possible to point out to three men employed by Mr. Atkins on his plantation, the proper method of conducting...
...Donors. For Botanic Garden. $2,500. Edwin F. Atkins. For the study of the improvement of sugar cane and other tropical plants. $2,000 for a fellowship for 1899-1900, and $500 for preparation of a catalogue on sugar cane culture...