PLANTS WHICH YIELD 



USEFUL CHEMICAL 



SUBSTANCES 



SOME OBSERVATIONS OF SUGAR CANE, 

 HOPS, AND SUGAR BEETS 



AT English physician residing in Trinidad 

 made a casual observation that proved 

 enormously important to the growers of 

 sugar cane. 



The physician observed that in the cane fields 

 there were little grasslike plants coming up here 

 and there. The planters whom he asked about it 

 said that it was "grass," and let the matter go at 

 that. But the physician had a suspicion that each 

 blade of grass was really the shoot of a seedling 

 sugar cane plant. 



As it chanced, both the planters and the physi- 

 cian were right. The little shoots were young 

 sugar cane plants; but of course sugar cane is 

 itself a giant grass, so there was no mistake. 



But the planters had not a suspicion as to what 

 kind of grass the shoots were ; so when the physi- 



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