16 BULLETIN 930, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Fig. 4. — Sisal in Florida. The more important sisal plantings throughout the world 
have originated from plants grown in Florida, although that State has never produced 
sisal fiber in commercial quantities. 
The shipment of 250,000 sisal bulbils received in Manila in 1918 was 
distributed by the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture to planters and 
to agricultural schools in the Provinces. Arrangements had been 
made for placing these plants in Government nurseries, but lack of 
