NOTES ON THE DASHEEN AND CHAYOTE 
Heber W. Youngken 
Within comparatively recent years, the United States Department of 
Agriculture has introduced into southern horticulture two exotic vege- 
tables, the Trinidad dasheen and the chayote. The success attending their 
experimental culture, and the steadily increasing demand by the populace 
of many sections, have encouraged their commercial cultivation to a limited 
Fig. I. Three-months-old plant of the Trinidad dasheen, Colocasia esculenta (L.) 
Schott, as grown in the greenhouse of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
degree. It may be safe to predict, however, that when the delicacy of their 
flavor becomes more generally known, they will be cultivated to such an 
extent as to be common articles in our markets alongside the potato and 
the squash. 
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