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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 



SELLING CHILE'S NATIONAL FLOWER 



The copihue is the bell-shaped bloom of a vine which 

 festoons the southern woods — red-rose, rose, pink, and 

 white in color. A famous horticulturist has said : "All 

 in all, the copihue is the most beautiful flower which 

 the earth has produced." The Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, is now raising the 

 copihue, and before many years this lovely flower will 

 be known throughout the country. 



America," a Chilean acquaintance 

 told me, "bill we'll have to for- 

 give you, because you gave us, 

 also, the California quail." 



1 had not expected to find quail 

 here, or hocks of shimmering 

 parrots, so far south. Back in 

 the woodland depths hides the 

 mysterious Jiucniiil, the shy, di- 

 minutive Chilean deer. Wild cat- 

 tle roam the highland gorges of 

 these southern Andes. 



THE GERMAN COLONISTS IN 

 SOUTHERN CHILE 



We revisited a number of pros- 

 perous South Chilean German 

 colonies which we had known in 

 former years. The first of these 

 colonists, eight families in all, ar- 

 rived in the port of Yaldivia in 

 1846. There are now ahout 30.- 

 000 people of German stock in 

 the country, mostly between 

 Valdivia and Puerto Montt. 



The towns of La Union and 

 Osorno show marked German in- 

 fluence, while Puerto Yaras, on 

 the shore of lovely Lake Llan- 

 quihue, is a typical Teuton vil- 

 lage. I passed many groups of 

 tow-headed school-children with 

 knapsacks on their backs. 



These people have greater 

 solidarity than any other foreign 

 racial group. Their Chileaniza- 

 tion seems to consist of learning 

 Spanish and wearing the poncho 

 in place of the mackintosh. Their 

 children are taught to revere the 



red-rose, rose, pink, and white in color. 

 Boys and girls gather great armfuls of 

 these lovely flowers and sell them at the 

 railroad stations. 



THE LAND OE WILD BERRIES 



This is the land of wild berries. Here 

 the strawberry is native. In 171 5 a 

 Frenchman carried the first Chilean 

 strawberries to Marseilles and cultivation 

 in Europe began. Later this berry, su- 

 perior to our variety, was brought to the 

 United States. Blackberries grow so lux- 

 uriantly that they are considered a pest. 



"You brought them to us from North 



fatherland. 



As dairymen, fruit-growers, and lum- 

 bermen, these colonists are most success- 

 ful. Almost every family takes summer 

 boarders. Each place has its waddling 

 geese, its cool, trellised beer-garden. 



The Krupp concession in southern 

 Chile, much talked of last year, is not ma- 

 terializing. This concession, granted two 

 individuals on behalf of the Krupp Com- 

 pany, gave them the right for 30 years — 

 the lease renewable at the expiration of 

 that time — to 346,000 acres of forest land, 

 with underlying coal-beds. A branch of 

 the Krupp iron and steel industry was to 

 have been established. Previous water- 



