SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



Why should we remain content to go on cultivating 

 the food, fiber, and other crops handed down to us by 

 our forefathers or picked up from native races? Why 

 should we not go out and explore the vast unknown 

 wealth of botanical resources? Why not, indeed there 

 are over twelve thousand distinct plant species in the 

 South! 



In this far-flung field the favorable climate of the 

 South multiplies the chances of success and the semi- 

 desert regions of the Southeast and the semitropical sec- 

 tions of Florida and the lower Gulf Coast are especially 

 inviting hunting grounds. 



Two leaders among the plant hunters are linked by 

 the unusual coincidence that their first names are the 

 same not John or William, but Cyrus Cyrus L. Lundell 

 and Cyrus N. Ray. After that, save for their zeal in 

 ferreting out new plants that we might put to work, 

 the resemblance ceases abruptly. Lundell is a slender, 

 rather quiet, self-contained scientist; a trained, excep- 

 tionally able botanist; a scholar; for all his enthusiasms 

 a circumspect and cautious speaker. Ray is a stoutish, 

 baldish, hail-fellow-well-met chap, a physician who 

 rides his hobbyhorses of Southeastern anthropology and 

 natural history hard and long. He is an amateur, an 

 exceedingly well-informed amateur, but overflowing 

 with the vigor and go of an unbroken colt. Ray will 

 talk your ear off as he drags you from one strange cactus 

 to another in the little garden-museum behind his home 



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