VEGETABLE GARDEN 



1993 



Composition of Yegetables— (Continued) 



Water 



Ash 



Nitrogen 



Phosphoric 

 Acid 



Potash 



Kohlrabi 



Lettuce, leaves 



Lettuce, stems 



Lettuce, whole plant 



Muskmelons, interior juice. 



Muskmelons, pulp 



Muskmelons, pulp juice. . . 



Muskmelons, rind 



Mustard, white 



Okra 



Onions 



Parsnips 



Peas, Canada field 



Peas, Garden 



Peas, green 



Peas, small (Lathyrus sativus), whole plant. 



Purapfcms, flesh 



Pumpkins, rind , . 



Pumpkins, seeds and stringy matter 



Pumpkins, whole fruit 



Rhubarb, roots 



Rhubarb, stems 



Rhubarb, stems and leaves 



Rutaba<?as 



Spinach. 



Squashes, flesh 



Squashes, rind 



Squaabes, sepds and stringy matter. 



Squashes, wh/'le fruit 



Sweet com, cobs 



Sweet corn, husks , 



Sweet corn, kernels 



Sweet corn, stalks , 



Sweet potatoes, tubers 



Sweet potat<jes, vmes. 



Tomatoes, fruitf 



Tomato*^, roots. . , , 



Tomatoes, vines 



Turnips. 



Watermelons, juice 



Watermelons, pulp 



Watermelons, rind. 



Watermelons, seeds 



tSugar in fruit, 3 .05 per cent; acid (malic), 0.46 per cent. 

 jCompiled by office of Experiment Station. 



YEOTXABLE lYORY 



The plant known in commerce as veg- 

 etable lYory is classed by botanists as 

 pnytelephas macrocarpa. It is a native 

 of South and Central America, growing 

 chiefly on the banks of the river Mag- 

 dalena, and Colombia. It is a palm, which 

 yields a hard, jSne-grained white sub- 

 stance which is the reserve cellulose 

 stored in the cell walls of the fruits. Its 

 stem reclines upon the ground for a few 

 feet, and then is crowned with long, 

 linear, plume-like pinate leaves, arching 

 upwards for 20 or 30 feet. Its fruits lie 

 near the ground, are globular, about as 

 large as a man's head, and consist of sev- 

 eral drupes enclosed in a woody, wart- 

 covered wall. The kernels of the drupes 



Per cent 



91.08 

 86.28 

 88.46 

 93.68 

 92.61 

 76 44 

 90.53 



91 15 

 84.19 

 87.41 

 87.55 

 80.34 

 12.48 

 12 62 

 79.93 



5 80 

 93 39 

 86 23 

 76.86 



92 27 

 74.35 



92 67 

 91.67 

 88.61 

 92.42 

 88.09 

 82 00 

 74 03 

 94.88 

 80 10 

 86.19 

 82.14 

 80.86 

 71.26 

 41 55 



93 64 

 73 31 

 83.61 

 90.46 

 93 05 

 91.87 

 89.97 

 48.37 



Per cent 



1.27 

 1 71 

 1.18 

 1.61 

 1.01 

 1 49 

 0.56 

 0.68 

 2.26 

 74 

 0.57 

 1.03 

 2.36 

 3.11 

 0.78 

 5.94 

 0.67 

 1.36 

 1.51 

 63 

 2.28 



94 

 1.72 

 1.15 



1 94 

 1.72 

 1.21 

 1 39 

 0.41 

 69 

 0.56 



56 



1 25 

 1 00 

 5.79 

 0.47 



11.72 

 3.00 

 0.80 

 20 

 0.33 

 1.24 

 1.34 



Per cent 

 0.48 



Per cent 

 0.27 



Per cent 

 0.43 



0.23 



*0 07 



"0.37 



0.14 

 0.22 



0,04 

 0.19 



0.10 

 62 



3.58 

 '2!50* 



0.84 

 'o!59' 



1.01 

 'i'99'* 



*0.11 

 0.55 



"0.16 

 0.06 



•0 09 

 0.63 



0.13 

 0.19 

 49 



0.02 

 0,12 

 0.16 



36 

 0.49 

 0.27 



0.21 

 0.18 

 0.46 

 0.28 

 *0.24 



0.05 

 0.07 

 07 

 14 

 ♦0.08 



0.22 

 22 

 0.24 

 0.41 

 •0.37 



16 

 0.24 

 32 

 0.18 



0.05 

 0.06 

 07 

 0.10 



0.27 

 0.29 

 0.50 

 0.39 



♦Wolff. 



or seeds are about as large as hens' eggs, 

 and when very young contain a clear, 

 insipid fluid, which is used by travelers 

 instead of water. As in the case of the 

 cocoanut, this fluid becomes milky and 

 sweet flavored, and the nuts are eagerly 

 eaten at this stage by animals; but they 

 continue to thicken and harden until, 

 when fully ripe, the seeds are so very 

 hard as to form a valuable substitute for 

 elephant ivory. 



It is mostly found in separate groves, 

 not mixed with other trees or shrubs, for 

 it seems to grow where scarcely anything 

 else can grow. It is known by the na- 

 tives on the banks of the Magdalena as 

 Tagau, on the coast of Barien as Anta, 

 and in Peru as Homero. 



Geanville Lowthee 



