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| 440 Fourth Avenue NEW YORK 
UExhibiter ieeces Catalog 
. Ane VERNE, Cal. —Cecil Houdy- 
s he 
he fangs county fair at Pomona, 
has peesicd a catalog of his unusual 
t] er members of this large family, 
well as rare lilies and irises. 
e aS ago that he was spend- 
his spare time studying orchids 
together with another florist soldier, 
Nature studies and public library 
references make refreshing changes 
of subject when off duty. 
Bae yy 
Se OF FIBER 
(By E. M. Marshall) 
It will be both profitable and pa- 
triotic to raise yuccas this year and 
for the duration of the war. The 
- culture advises that these plants be 
grown, especially in the waste lands 
_ of the Southwest where very little 
- else can be raised at all. The rea- 
son the Department takes such an 
‘interest in the fate of the yuccas is 
easy to understand, for these plants 
are the only native source of hemp 
-which we have. It is a case of 
either increasing our dwindling sup- 
plies of hemp or of doing without 
_ rope, twine and bags. 
There will be no problem connect- 
ed with cultivating yuccas. They 
are easy to grow and_do well with- 
out the care required by plants of 
less hardy makeup. Setting out the 
plants is the biggest job. They re- 
‘quire as little as 5 inches of rain- 
fall a year and thrive as well in 
very hot temperatures as in cooler 
- ones..°The desert land best suited 
: for ‘their ceultivation costs as little 
as $2 an acre. As this will not re- 
- quire irrigation, yuccas should be 
one of the best moneymakers for 
both florists and farmers. 
_ The cultivated plants produce an 
average yield of 30 tons of fiber 
which sells at more than $3 a ton. 
‘There is a large farm growing 
YUCCA, VALUABLE WARTIME 
_ United States Department of Agri-. 
AS lone as flowers grow, Max Schling will 
be remembered as their most ardent and 
talented exponent.” 
In this s pirit the business 
of MAX SCHLING, Inc. 
continues . . . maintaining 
the standards established by 
its Founder. 
MAX SCHLING, Inc. 
MAX SCHLING, JR., Vice-President 
ALFRED M. SCHEIDER, Treasurer 
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DAVID PLATT, Vice-President and General Manager 




itors come. during the blossoming 
season just to see these lovely, tree- 
like plants. 
Yuccas differ from other plants 
in several ways. The usual agents 
of pollination do not serve them, 
for they depend entirely upon a 
small moth called the pronuba. Most 
species of flowers depend upon their 
blooms, but the source of profit in 
yuccas will be the tough, spiny 
leaves that can be cut without in 
any way injuring the plant. For it 
is only these older leaves that con- 
tain fiber. This insures the contin- 
uation of yuccas, as it will not be 
profitable to growers to destroy the 
plant by taking off leaves in which 
there is little or no fiber. 
It is only recently that these 
plants were known to have hemp 
in sufficiently large amounts to at- 
tract growers with an eye to prof- 
its) Some years ago experiments 
were made to extract fiber from the 
leaves but these were only partially 
successful in producing salable fi- 
ber. A better method that requires 
less cooking now is used and gives 
excellent results. 
For there is a real need for fiber 
GEORGE KOCH SONS INC. INDIANA 

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at present. Over two million fiber 
bags are used just in Arizona, New 
Mexico, Texas and Colorado for only 
the vegetable crops, to say nothing 
of the bags needed for fruit nor all 
those required by all the rest of our 
country. Rope and twine also re- 
quire fiber in huge amounts. That 
is one reason that our fiber im- 
ports have kept increasing from $85,- 
000,000 to over $200,000,000 in 1929. 
