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At the turn of the nineteenth century—when most food in America was bland and brown and few people appreciated the economic potential of then-exotic foods—David Fairchild convinced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find and bring back foreign cultivars. Fairchild traveled to remote corners of the globe, searching for fruits, vegetables, and grains that could find a new home in American fields and in the American diet. In Fruits of Eden, Amanda Harris vividly recounts the exploits of Fairchild and his small band of adventurers and botanists as they traversed distant lands—Algeria, Baghdad, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Java, and Zanzibar—to return with new...
The plant is first raised in seed beds till large enough to transplant, the same as cabbage and tomato plants. These beds should be properly located and carefully prepared.
The plant is first raised in seed beds till large enough to transplant, the same as cabbage and tomato plants. These beds should be properly located and carefully prepared.