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Prize Crop. In Los Angeles, County Park Superintendent J. R. Wimmer proudly pointed out the luxuriant ornamental plants around the County Agricultural Building. Commented visiting Horticulturist A. J. Barton: "That's a fine crop of marijuana, my friend...
...second act in which the simply appropriate sets of Brie Taylor and the delightful, if quantitatively inadequate music of Irving Fine serve to set off a series of excellent vignettes. George Clay and Edith Bronson stole the audience during brief appearances, while Donald Gair ably portrayed the horticulturist Uncle, hampered only by a beard which obscured too many of his lines. Mendy Weisgal startled the audience by doubling up with two minor roles. His appearance as the Nephew was too brief to be convincing; as an old man he has received attention in this column before...
...century before U.S. farmers took even a faint interest in them, the first soybeans were brought to this country by an amateur horticulturist named Dr. James Mease. "The soybean is adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved...
...risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking of backyard sage may help out, such supplies will not be commercially important. >Thyme came from France. No U.S. horticulturist is yet growing it commercially. > Best paprika came from Hungary. A little still arrives from Portugal and Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from...
...Last and least little party: The National Greenback Party, which advocates going off the gold standard and electing John Zahnd, an amateur horticulturist of Indianapolis, as President of the U. S. For Vice President: James E. Yates, apostle in the Phoenix, Ariz. Church of Christ...