NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS 905 
Photo by P. H. Dorsett 
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL BUNCH OF UDO PUT UP IN THIS COUNTRY 
Shoots cut from plants set from 2-inch pots in May, 1910, on Mr. W. E. Meeks’ ranch, 
Bryford Island, near Antioch, California. The shoots are a half to three-quarters of an inch 
in diameter and about 12 inches long. Taken at Antioch, California, March 28, 1911. 
No wonder, then, considering all the plant industry in Japan.” I am aware 
uses of this plant, that the Chief Forester that there enters in here that complicated 
of Japan, when I asked him about the question of the cheapness of Oriental 
value of the bamboo industry in his coun- labor, and that there are many things 
try, said at once: “It’s the best-paying which we cannot do with the bamboo 
