LUTHER BURBANK 



I hope even yet to be able to make the experi- 

 ment. Failing this, 1 trust that someone else will 

 take the matter in hand. 



Some Neglected Grasses 



If my work with the rice has been only tenta- 

 tive, there are almost numberless allied grasses 

 with which I have experimented on a compre- 

 hensive scale. 



Indeed, I have raised, at one time or another 

 during the past thirty-five years, almost every 

 grass that has economic importance, and many 

 never supposed to have value. Among these sev- 

 eral fine varieties have been introduced through 

 Cecil Rhodes of South Africa, which proved enor- 

 mous croppers in moist, warm regions of this state. 

 Some of these I have grown extensively year after 

 year; others only for a single season, for the pur- 

 pose of obtaining variation in some useful 

 direction. 



My work with the familiar giant grasses, Indian 

 corn, sorghum and teosinte, and with the equally 

 familiar small grains, has already been detailed. 

 I refer here to other grasses that are less widely 

 known to the general public, including some that 

 are rarely seen even by the agriculturist. 



My experimental work with these various 

 grasses has been as diverse as the qualities of the 

 plants themselves. 



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