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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1912 



Burpee's 



The Leading American 

 Seed Catalog for 1912 



A Bright New Book of 178 Pages — it is 

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yields is known on the market as Florida arrow- 

 root, though the true arrowroot starch is yielded 

 by another and very different plant. Over in the 

 Bahama Islands koonti is called bay-rush. 



Koonti grows on the high dry land among the 

 pines and palmettoes; in fact, they say, in locat- 

 ing land for a home, "Look for koonti. Where 

 koonti grows the land is never flooded." I used 

 to wonder at the large number of old blazes on 

 pine trees. I have since learned that they marked 

 the tasks for the koonti diggers. Although there 

 are the ruins here and there throughout the woods 

 of primitive koonti milk a few are still at it and one 

 man near here has a comparatively large plant 

 with considerable machinery. The refuse from 

 these factories is useful for fertilizer. This would 

 serve no doubt, much better as a filler for com- 

 mercial fertilizer than brown paper or mud from 

 lake bottoms. 



Fire sweeps over these pinelands frequently, but 

 the koonti is safe, in fact, better off since the main 

 part of the plant is underground and the fire opens 

 the cone-like fruits and helps to scatter the seeds. 

 One could easily form a permanent koonti farm in 

 the pines by grubbing up the palmettoes and fire- 

 flashing the surface once a year at a time when 





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Trie koonti. a small plant with large underground 

 stem, furnishes a starch known as Florida arrowroot 



there is the least danger of doing damage. This 

 is about the best, in fact, the only way of keeping 

 the fire damage down in a pine-covered palmetto 

 country. It is an old Indian method, but is prac- 

 tised even in France with its up-to-date foresters. 

 There would be little need of fencing such a planta- 

 tion since few things except the koonti worm eat 

 it a second time. In its raw state, leaves, seeds, 

 and stems are undoubtedly poisonous. 



Animals which drink the red-water from washing 

 the starch usually die, not a quick death but a slow 

 poisoning. The seeds form in a brown cone-like 

 head and resemble very large grains of fresh corn. 

 The natives call these seeds koonti or comptie corn. 

 I have heard it said that crows eat "comptie corn" 

 and live, but that one reason why turkeys are not 

 successful here is that they kill themselves by 

 eating comptie com. 



The koonti is a very small plant with a large 



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