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Excerpt from Marketing Activities, Vol. 4: June 1941 The benefits of plant exploration and introduction are not always immediately forthcoming, of course. This was the case when Frank Meyer, Department of Agriculture plant hunter, became interested in a strain of native spinach while exploring for plants in Manchuria back in 1908. He sent a few packets of the seed to the United States with his plant collections, but the variety proved to have little commercial value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.