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Department Bulletin No. 26. — American Medicinal Flowers, Fruits, 

 and Seeds. Page. 



Introduction 1 



Collection of flowers, fruits, and seeds 1 



Plants furnishing medicinal flowers, fruits, and seeds 2 



Juniper 2 



Saw palmetto 3 



Wormseed 4 



Pokeweed 5 



Black mustard 6 



White mustard 7 



Raspberries 8 



Prickly ash 8 



Smooth sumac 9 



American linden 10 



Poison hemlock 11 



Jimson weed 13 



Mullein 14 



Elder 15 



Department Bulletin No. 27. — Bouillon Cubes: Their Contents and 

 Food Value Compared with Meat Extracts and Home-made Prepara- 

 tion op Meat. 



Introduction 1 



Commercial bouillon cubes 1 



Comparison of nutritive value and cost of bouillon cube with semisolid 



meat extract, fluid meat extract, and commercial meat juice 3 



Commercial meat juices and other liquid meat preparations 4 



Comparison of the food value and cost of a home-made beef broth and a 

 home-made meat and vegetable soup with bouillon cubes, semisolid 



meat extracts, and similar preparations 5 



Summary 7 



Department Bulletin No. 28. — Experiments in Bulb Growing at the 

 United States Bulb Garden at Bellingham. 



Introduction 1 



Location of the garden 3 



Soil of the garden 3 



Hyacinths 4 



Narcissuses , 13 



Tulips 17 



Summary 21 



Department Bulletin No. 29. — Crew Work, Costs, and Returns in Com- 

 mercial Orcharding in West Virginia. 



Introduction 1 



Sources of information and methods of investigation 2 



Description of the region 3 



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