EXPERIMENTS WITH UDO. 



EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH UDO. 



Siebold and Zuccarini, 1 in their Flora of Japan, called special 

 attention as long ago as 1835 to the good qualities of the udo as a 

 vegetable and recommended it for introduction into Europe, with 



Fig. 6. — Flowers and fruit of the udo. The flowers are visited throughout the season by 

 honeybees and flies, and the dark fruit clusters are ornamental. 



the remark that " the young shoots form a delicious vegetable," as 

 follows : 



This plant probably came from China, where it is employed as a sudorific; 

 it is cultivated throughout Japan in the gardens and a.s a field culture. 



1 Siebold and Zuccarini. Flora Japonica, vol. 1, p. 57, 1835. 



