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nossprl the old horse, packed in our tools 
and drove home—across the stream and 
through the beautiful woods. We had 
paid our tribute to the dead. She was 
not one who died on the field of battle, 
yet her young life was in its way a vic¬ 
tory. As I drove out of the churchyard I 
saw across the graves an old man—evi¬ 
dently a soldier—standing beside two 
graves at which little flags were fluttering. 
It reminded me of the picture I have seen, 
‘•The Last Grand Army Man”: 
“When Spring with dewy fingers creeps 
Above the grave where valor sleeps, 
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Here honor comes—a pilgrim gray— 
To stand beside their hallowed clay, 
And freedom shall a while repair 
To stand a weeping hermit there.” 
It seemed to me that the old man real¬ 
ized somehow that the great sacrifice he 
and his dead comrades made 60 years 
ago had somehow been dimmed and made 
into a “back number” by this mightier 
struggle which their grandchildren had 
made. Had he lived too long, to see that 
old glory fade away? Is it possible to 
carry what this old man had in his heart 
past two generations? I do not know. I 
cannot guess. The shadows had begun to 
creep across the grass. A robin, belated 
in her nest building, hopped al-jug a grave 
with a wisp of hay in her beak. Little 
Itose put out her hand and patted mine : 
“07/, didn’t we hare rt flood lime?'’ 
We did, although it was intended for 
anvthing except a hunt for pleasure. 
II. w. c. 
New Plant Immigrants 
Bulletin 152 of the Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Introduction describes a 
variety of melon from Ecuador, the Zam- 
bo. Cucurbita ficifolia: “Resembles a 
small watermelon. Flesh white, sweetish, 
made into dulces and also eaten as a veg¬ 
etable. . 
“I think it is not known in the I mted 
State and may prove useful there. It is 
a native of this country (Ecuador), where 
it is cultivated with corn, and is very ex¬ 
tensively used for man as well as for 
stock. The plant will not endure severe 
frost. It grows at a temperature of from 
14° to 25° C. The best rule is to grow 
it with corn, planting it in the corn rows 
20 feet apart, each way. Although in 
Ecuador it is a perennial, it is more com¬ 
monly treated as an annual. It is often 
planted along walls and at the foot of 
trees on which it climbs and produces 
fruit continually. This way is successful 
only where there is no frost. The way it 
is used here for food is as follows: When 
the melons are five or six inches long and 
the shell still soft enough for the finger¬ 
nail to be driven into it. they are cooked 
or made into various dishes with salt and 
butter. When ripe it is also eaten, cooked, 
with milk added at the table. For stock 
feed it is used when ripe, the raw fruits 
being cut in pieces; but it is far better, 
especially for hogs and milch cows, if 
cooked before feeding. The pulp is white 
and contains sugar and some starch. The 
ripe melons can easily be kept for a year 
in a dry. well-ventilated place, and are 
thus available for Winter feed. The mel¬ 
ons average 20 to 20 lbs. each. When 
completely ripe the shell is very hard and 
the seeds black. There are two varieties, 
one with the shell white and the other 
with the shell green striped with white.” 
Further reference is made to the oca or 
ocha, Oxalis tuberosa. from Ecuador. 
This is a plant related to our common 
sheep sorrel, widely cultivated in Peru 
and Bolivia for the sake of its fleshy 
root stocks, which are an important ar¬ 
ticle of food. These are eaten raw, as 
well as cooked, and are also frozen and 
dried. Raw ocas, when first dug. have a 
distinctly acid taste, like sheep sorrel, but 
this is lost after the tubers have been 
exposed to the sun. The plant attains a 
height of a foot or more and has the ap¬ 
pearance of a large sheep sorrel. The 
flowers are yellow and the leaflets are 
folded at night or in wet weather, the 
same as in sheep sorrel. The varieties 
are numerous, though much fewer than 
in the case of the potato. The tubers are 
very tender, rather crisp and juicy. In 
form some are nearly cylindrical, while 
others are slender at the base and strongly 
thickened at the end. The colors vary 
from white or light pink through darker 
pinks or yellows to deep purplish red. In 
addition to the pleasing coloration, the 
surface of the tubers is smooth and clear, 
so that the general appearance is very 
attractive. If the taste should prove ac¬ 
ceptable ocas might become very popular 
for salads and pickles. 
Kapok, or silk cotton, is often referred 
to commercially as a material for filling 
mattresses, stuffed furniture, etc. An¬ 
other bulletin from the above department 
states that the kapok tree, native in the 
American tropics, is widely distributed in 
the tropics of both hemispheres. It at¬ 
tains a height of from 75 to 100 feet, 
with wide-spreading horizontal branches, 
making an attractive ornamental or shade 
tree. It is often planted along the bor¬ 
ders of fields for fence posts. It begins to 
bear seed pods with down when about 
live years old, and the yield of pods in¬ 
creases with the age of the tree. Well- 
developed trees under favorable conditions 
yield about 7,000 lbs. per acre. Kapok 
cannot be spun, but it is an excellent ma¬ 
terial for pillows, mattresses, life preserv¬ 
ers, etc., and its use is rapidly increasing. 
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