New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 15

5, 1! 5 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930. PLANT GEGGRAPHY OF U. 3. CHANGED Horticulturists Honor Man Who Introduced Varieties Washington, D. C.. Dec. Award to Dr. David Fairchild, bot- anist and agriculture explorer, of :orge Robert White medal, st horticultural honor in| Amwerica, bestowed by the Massa- chusetts Horticultural Socie old- est and most distinguished ociety of its kind in the country, calls at- tention to the vast changes in the plant geography of the United Btates. “Thirty-three vears ago, Dr. Fair-| child organized the work in the de- partment of agriculture which, crys- | tallized in the office of foreign plant introduction, has introduced into the United States more than 80,000 separate species and varieties of use- | ful plants,” says a bulletin from thé Washington, . C., headquarters of | the National Geographic Society ’ “These new plants have added to| the beauty and variety of the public | parks and private gardens from | coast to coast, and have enhanced | the value of agricultural products | by millions of dollars annually. | Corn “Fair and Good” “From the days of the Pilgrims, America’s first plant explorer, who | found ‘Indian baskets, filled with| corn, some whereof was in ears, fair | and good, of divers colors,” until to- day when only train or airplane ride, or walk through city parks or countryside reveais immigrant plant life, the plant geography of the| United States has heen vastly and| continually transformed | “But it was not until the young| man from one of the country's first | great agricultural colleges, that of the State of Kansas, became identi- | fied with the department of agricul- | ture, in Washington. and was called upon by Secretary James Wilson to organize the work of foreign plant | introduction that the government | engaged, systematically and scienti- fically, in this work of eco- nomic agriculture Seek Plants in Jungle and Desert “Dr. Fairchild engaged in his first searches for new plants to in- troduce as the agricultural explorer attached to the expeditions of Bar- bour Lathrop. - Then, and since, he and his associates have penetrated jungles, marshes and deserts to dis- | cover plants which would yield new | food and fruits for the American | table, raw materials for American | factories, or would add new color | and form to our gardens. “In 1906 after eight years of for- eign cxploration he resumed charge of the officc of foreign plant intro- | duction, an office which has engag- | ed imone of the most adventurous, | | | 11— asic romantic and useful tasks of any government burcau. He now is at- tached to it as a special agricultural explorer, with his office in Wash- ngton, and a winter home in Coco- | nut Grove, Florida, where in the | large federal plant introduction | garden and his own private garden he experiments with th many useful, exotic tropical plants, shrubs, trees and flowers he lects on pilgrimages to distant parts of the carth. The Magellans of Plant Exploration “Under with his cooperation thirty expeditions have such explorer as Frank Meyer, Kearney, W. T. Swingle, Mark Carleton, ~ Joseph F. Rock. Neils| Hansen, Wilson Popenoe and P. H. Dorsett as leaders. ey ha brought back plants, shrubs, trees, | vegetables, grains and forage crops which have beautified or made more valuable hundreds of thousands of acres of gardens, parks and farm lands of the country. Am introductions were the dry land elm, brought by Meyer from China, now thriving from Louisiana to the Canadian border: superior varieties of the Chimese and Japanese persimmons, once a curiosity, now frequent in American market stalls; the popular sorts of the avocado (alligator pear) which Popenoe found after two years' search among the mountains of Guatemala: the pistache nut of the and th S0 bean of* the now grown on three mill land the United in col- n his supervision or more than been sent out these Levant Orient, acres of all over “The office of foreign plant intro- duction under Dr. Fairchild's diree- tion has accummulated the most extensive collection of original ficid deseriptions of useful crop plants in existence, the largest seed collec- tion of economic plans species, and the greatest collection of photo- graphs of useful plants in the world. | Sorghum, Dates and Bamboo “Of the plants which Dr. Fair-| child personally collected, one of the most important is probably the Feterita sorghum from the Sudan, an important grain and forage crop for Arizona and California, several million dollars worth of which is now being grown annually. “He also brought in the Persian Gulf dates from Baghdad and the tung/ oil tree introduction from China, whose nuts furnish the “wood oil' of the paint and, varnish indus- try. “It is largely through the initia- | tive of Dr. Ifairchild that groves of the Orinctal bamboo have been es- | tablished in America | Tropical Plants in Demand | “Morc and morc do industry.y medicine, and food puryeyors look to the tropics for sources of sup —such tropical crops as grubber, which makes possible the automo- bile; quinine, which is man’s first Legal Notice The Board of Examination and Registration of Nurses will hold a| meeting at the Hotel Bond, Harl-|{ ford, Conn., Wednesday, January 1. 1931 at 10:30 a. m. Exannnations for registration \\I“‘ be held at the State Capitol, Harl—_ ford, Conn., Friday and Saturday. January 23d and 24th, these dates subject to change. | Applications for Examination ghould be secured from the Secre-| tary and must be filed at her officc ot later than January 1, 1931 D A. HART, R. N., State Library, Hartford, Conn ‘ | and Togs Are Swanky | | mantic New outfits for Florida beach wear show new touches of smart- ness. The one-piece tank suit of yellow with a brown detach- able skirt -(left) is both a walking and swimming suit. In a sailor outfit (right) a one-piece bathing suit is covered by “gob’ pants in navy blue jersey. line of defense against ma coffee which is to Brazil w ton is to our southern states Dr. Fairchild have explor:d jungles Sionx Serbo-Croation Bulgarian, Gre ingariar nish, Latvian, Armenian, Lithu . Arabic, Bohemian, Slovak, in- nian, Jap- Russi fore in recent and associates into the more remote nd forests, His quest for new plants has 1led him thro Dutch East Indies and the Sea Isles, into Stam, w Ceylon, along the bor: of the Persian Gulf, and has extend- . in southern latitudes, to the teriors of New Zeland and traliz TRANSLATOR TALKS ©* - him in developir langua Words Not College Man o ot ear-old child Mr ot the and receives vears Ukrainian Chir Once he ing a Ufono. good the framework his tropic anese in devis- called wasn't er rew away elaborate vocabu- whole in- Aus- alphabet ' which he devel- the name In our ow t Jan like lable pet 105t Zhoeylong DO know Dec. 11 Wilfred most re- Washingion tevens, who is one Doctor: able men in Washingtor ernment s m, valuable a gov- " dep Woodro principal tr ment of stat Mr. Stevens knows 80 and has invented two more es of his own. He languages languag- to be the s distinction. His only man who ever resigned from o, ; ndl fringed the government service whose res- e acnia cnation was not accepted & Gk i d sbac He rides to work every day on .. Walt T Gn o ithe a bicyele, lives largely on the fruit |y "or yicnose He wears dark brown known as the pawpaw. thrives on | o¢ ppo® {0 1 ChEreen £ day " gk neckties and an accomplished horticulturist carrying around aL 1 words in his head This is more than Woodrow Wilson for his voc has been oo them is s 'S rests m as which hecome costs cents a has whils Germa ahulary around and He learned Dakota Sioux cars later between colle the 1 Indians - found a striking s that and Japanese he asked if he words of one language of another, he Once when was never got the mixed up with those admitted: “After of dozen did.” The 30 langua command, several spe inglish Portugnese Swedish, Danish, iilari No the first couple somictimes learning == = B lasipces Special Notice hu will 1 candy of the hold Ladies Mo Stevens' he st fluency, are Ialian, German, Duteh, | Mr of which Staniey orial « 1ks with ood e o 5 Rtumanian Norwegian, MOHICAN MARKET New Britain’s Quality Food Market 391 - 401 MAIN STREET Haddock 7 C RS o B MACKEREL S . 5.12¢ STEAK CODFISH ... . ., 22¢ PICKEREL | y¢;age 25¢ HALIBUT §id ... 32¢ SWORDFISH jiceq . 39¢ NRESSED EELS 32¢ TUNA FISH . 2an33¢ Received Fresh Daily Extra Fancy Tillets, 1b told the job would be there ever he came ha And last month he came back. He had spent his time working on “Zhovy-lorig." At the moment he ing stumped by letter w the White House in dialect. So is « tra university taught him anything. He knew German and the languages when he arrived hington to become in the government vrinting office. At that time he started on the Slavonic languages and within three months had a good knowledge Russian. After studying Portu- for a few months he did some important special translation for the Brazilian embassy. He jumped to the Mongolian and Semitic and soon aftery English-Chinesc and ¢ ng on Greck ro- in Wa reader a proof- confesses be- itten to st Indian in the an I eryone clse slating hureau He says ye him to learn a ing so he pers prin study extracting root cataloguing the Jux foolseap paper until he | the main « the Naturally ma memory; he is the world's most « Iy difficult for In do- wspa- language ads hooks the langu e is and “ts of s indexed lage languages ard was writing an dictionary conversations in ements of has an 1150 pro one of pert phoneticists. Elihu Burritt Knew 10 The state department frem the war de intelligence offic was there for 2 at th got him Artment’'s military i £ in 1901 and years. They be state department that no man cver had such a deep knowledge of Chine The o many lang although Elihu one of monosylial Burritt of Connecticut, “The I rather d ed Blacksmith,” er ve known il of ars ago he grew only §2100 a congress thought translator. 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He was singing my language today, he o1 10 be Stevens i when- s umeng gets rid of a lot and small inconsequential pup ing airpl lent the which he Wild or sut mile Tumbia ng his bike would inc ! and of S nations It pedai \HA%}\\ Paws st Halier Post Auxiliary Holds Annual Meeting an ting, retrieves the to his trees and pa bicyele and wars home Mr. Stevens was one of fh of the Wright broti per hought lesson e and flew | it o b nnual mee of the a friend, w flew it in 1 sme fle tto o last night troad s ixiliary sk rooms on I ident 1o offic He re lives alone on farm in n mia Gra Mrs. secretary has na 18; He hasn't CHTS 10« 1 I recording 1stead Wozniuk fron Polukowsiii Mrs cretary phania Mrs Mrs Benetit Ruszcezy} and Mrs asurer and Mary titute reals most ac- 1thong king plans in of the Army woud fficers Polish of America : g members of Facl unite t into auxil- dry alliance tivities sin: boundary and t L fourth district will be taken 0 town. a Gifiable it will 5 Cost less al Electric Train Comes Loaded With Happiness for Any Youngster $5.95 Whr-r-r...whr-r-r ... and away goes the loco- motive whizzing two pullmans ’round and ’round the tracks. 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