PINK CHIVES AND OTHER 

 FOODS FOR FLAVOR 



SOME SUCCESSFUL WORK WITH THE ONION 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 

 animal. 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 spells destruction for the succu- 

 lent 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 production 



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