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over such annual crops as celery or such perennial crops as asparagus. 

 It has been estimated that when grown on a large scale it would 

 require much less labor than celery and that it furnishes a crop from 

 seed at least a year sooner than asparagus, and there may be other 

 advantages which will appear during the long process of adaptation 

 through which every new plant introduction must pass before it 

 becomes a real factor in the diversification of our agriculture. 



Udo has already won many adherents among those who care for 

 new vegetables, and, although it can not by any means be said to be 

 a well-known table vegetable, it has arrived at a point where it might 

 be pushed by any careful, enterprising advertiser of fancy vegetables. 

 It has been served successfully at large dinner parties in Washington 

 and on the private tables of those who have their own gardens. It is 

 winning its way steadily, as evidenced by the increased call for plants 

 and the fact that importations of seed from Japan have become con- 

 siderable, according to recent advices from an important nursery 

 firm there. 



In Europe, so far as the writer is aware, udo has not made any 

 headway; but this is not to be wondered at when we consider the 

 conservatism it must meet there. Mr. Philippe de Vilmorin, of the 

 firm of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie., of Paris, admits, however, that 

 udo is the one Japanese vegetable which deserves to be introduced 

 into cultivation in France. 



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WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1914 



