SOME PLANTS USED FOR 

 FOOD AND FLAVOR 



Some Successful Work with the 

 Lily Family 



THAT there is such a thing as being too 

 popular, many plants have learned to their 

 sorrow. For popularity, with the plant, 

 implies a kind of attractiveness that results in 

 the plant being eaten by some herbivorous ani- 

 mal. The animals can secure food in no other 

 way, so they are not to be blamed for their 

 marauding. But in the meantime the appeasing 

 of their appetites is destruction for the succulent 

 herbs. 



The only resource of the plants is either to 

 develop extraordinary capacity to thrive under 

 adversity, as the familiar lawn grasses do; or to 

 develop weapons of defense. 



These defensive measures may take the form 

 of a tough and indigestible fiber as in the case of 

 woody shrubs; the studding of the plant surface 

 with spines as with the blackberry; the produc- 



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