Photo by Crandall 
THE TAMOPAN PERSIM MON: A NEW FRUIT FOR AMERICA 
__ A natural-size photograph of a seedless and puckerless persimmon which is often four 
inches in diameter, and because it can be eaten while as hard as an apple, is destined to play 
a great role in the remaking of the persimmon industry. 
If the Oriental timber bamboo had 
produced seeds oftener than once in 40 
years it would long ago have been intro- 
duced and be now growing in the South. 
The fact that it had to be brought over 
in the form of living plants, and that 
these plants required special treatment, 
has stood in the way of the quick distri- 
bution of this most important plant 
throughout those portions of America 
where it will grow. After several un- 
successful attempts, a beginning has at 
last been made, and the Department has 
a grove of Oriental bamboos in northern 
Florida, and a search is being made in 
different parts of the world for all those 
species which are adapted to our climate. 
It was while I was traveling in Japan 
for Mr. Barbour Lathrop, of Chicago, 
that he called my attention to the great 
