HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1914 
Some New Vegetable Varieties 
(Continued from page 23) 
but possessing a totally different flavor 
and consistency. This has been produced 
by hybridization and is one of the most 
successful efforts in that line, growing 
rapidly and extensively and proving a 
valuable food product. Then there is the 
soy bean, brought from China, which when 
once started grows quickly, yielding three 
crops a season. 
Over in a corner of the garden of to¬ 
morrow it is more than likely one will find 
some edible bamboo, for it is now being 
grown in this country, coming to us from 
japan. There are several varieties of 
these asparagus-like shoots, some of them 
growing as rapidly as a foot a day. So 
fresh and tender are the shoots that they 
can be snapped off with the hand, and 
when cooked they form one of the greatest 
vegetable delicacies of the world. If you 
cannot wait until you find them in your 
garden they may be bought canned in 
almost any Chinese or Japanese store in 
this country, as they are shipped for the 
thousands of Chinese and Japanese people 
who live here, as it is a staple food in the 
land from which they came. It can be 
cooked and served in many waVs, but 
cooked in salt water and served on toast 
with a cream dressing, like asparagus, it 
is most palatable. 
The sweet potato is confronted with a 
new rival, known as the Dahomey tuber, 
but it must have a warm climate to prove 
a success; in Florida, for instance, the 
yield is huge. Its flavor is a bit more 
mealy than our sweet potato and pecul¬ 
iarly delicious. The tubers grow to an 
average length of between six and seven 
inches. It has a distinct advantage, too, 
in that whereas most vegetables grown in 
the tropics must be irrigated during the 
dry season, it need not be. All that is 
necessary is to plant it; no irrigation or 
special care is necessary. 
There are many more new vegetables 
which will be in the garden of to-morrow, 
but these described have been tested and 
found very practical. Mr. David Fair- 
child, Chief Agricultural Explorer, of the 
Department of Agriculture at Washing¬ 
ton, who is keenly alive to every possi¬ 
bility for new foods for the American 
people says: “We are glad to send seeds 
and cuttings to people with the right kind 
of soil who are willing to give these new 
vegetables a thorough tryout. It is not at 
all improbable that our children and 
grandchildren may look back at the foods 
which go to make up our bill-of-fare of 
to-day and speak of them and our tastes 
as ‘most peculiar.’ Many of these new 
vegetables will help reduce that moot 
question, the high cost of living, for their 
yield is so much greater than our vege¬ 
tables whose places they will take, hence 
they will be cheaper. 
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