Sugar-Cane Tassel 



Notwithstanding its elaborate tassel, the sugar cane or- 

 dinarily does not bear seed. Indeed, until somewhat recently, 

 it was not known to bear seed at all. By rare exception, however, 

 seed is occasionally formed; and the discovery that certain little 

 grass-like plants in a sugar cane field were really seedlings 

 of the sugar plant led to the development of a new 

 variety with exceptional qualities. Ordinarily 

 the sugar cane is propagated by division. 



