NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS 
work. 
Photo by Frank N. Meyer 
BAMBOO WARES AS THEY ARE OFFERED FOR SALE IN CHINESE VILLAGES 
No material is to be compared with the bamboo for the construction of this kind of 
It can be split into strands no larger than a horsehair, and from the same shoot can 
be made broad bands and hard, rigid framing pieces. 
The most delicate baskets in the 
world are made of bamboo, and at the same time the coarsest, roughest weirs, to be filled 
with stones and rolled into the streams for holding embankments. 
fer to treat of only a few of the many 
important problems with which the office 
is working, passing by, also, the introduc- 
tion of the Durum wheat, the Japanese 
rice, and giving the Siberian alfalfas, 
which are earning for the farmers of 
the country many millions of dollars a 
year, a bare mention, for the reason that 
they have been so often described in the 
magazines and daily papers. 
The mango is one of the really great 
fruits of the world. India, with its hun- 
dreds of millions of people, has for cen- 
turies held it sacred, and celebrates an- 
nual ceremonies in its honor. The great 
Mogul Akbar, who reigned in the 16th 
century, planted the famous Lak Bag, an 
orchard of a hundred thousand mangos, 
and some of these still remain alive. 
It is a fruit the importance of which 
Americans are at last beginning to recog- 
nize, notwithstanding the unfortunate 
discredit which the worthless seedling 
mangos of the West Indies have given 
it in the minds of Americans generally. 
There are probably more varieties of 
mangos than there are of peaches. I 
have heard of one collection of 500 dif- 
ferent sorts in India. There are exqui- 
sitely flavored varieties no larger than a 
