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Biology in America 



seek "fresli fields to eonquor" and to lay new tribntes npon 

 the altar of coninierce. Tlic earliest record of the ini})orta- 

 tion of animals of eoinmercial importance from one country 

 to anotlier is the story of the Chinese princess, who, defyinf? 

 imperial edicts for love of her betrothed, bronji'ht some eggs 



The Quarter-Acre Bamboo CIrove at the C. J. Edwards Place 

 Near Abbeville, Louisiana. Planted in 1898, in 1915 it produced 

 over 200 large shoots. 



Coiirtcsir of Die I'. S. Hiircdii oj I'Innt Induntrii. 



of the silkworm over the mountains to her Indian lover, while 

 in the days of Justinian silkworms were brought to Con- 

 stantinojjle by Persian priests, who concealed the eggs of the 

 moth in hollow canes. 



America is a great experiment station for the breeding of 

 new animals and plants, where the "stranger within our 



