IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



in New Zealand is of course our winter time, and 

 vice versa, and the plant found it difficult to adjust 

 itself to the new order of seasons. By encourag- 

 ing it to maintain its old system of reckoning in 

 the new latitude, Mr. Burbank made it practically 

 a perpetual bearer. It is at its best in the win- 

 ter season, when ordinarily rhubarb is altogether 

 dormant. 



Another important line of experiment to which 

 Mr. Burbank has devoted much time and atten- 

 tion has to do with the introduction of new races 

 of garden vegetables. He has worked with a 

 species of lily called the camassia, which bears 

 beautiful flowers, until its bulb gives promise of 

 rivaling the potato. He is similarly educating 

 another lily called the brodiaea; and yet another 

 known as the tigridia a bearer of beautiful flow- 

 ers; and he has even turned attention to such 

 hitherto unwelcome plants as the dandelion, the 

 thistle, and the burdock, all of which he believes 

 are likely candidates for admission to the vege- 

 table garden. 



The bulb of the tigridia is regarded by Mr. Bur- 

 bank as the most delicious of vegetables when 

 cooked. 



Sundry tropical solanums relatives of the po- 

 tato and tomato are being relieved of their 

 spines and educated to bear better fruits by Mr. 

 Burbank. The ground cherry and the passion 

 flower are other plants that he has in training, 

 the fruits of which have already made significant 

 progress. In the further development of these 



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