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THE recent issue of the Kew Bulletin of Mis-L cellaneous Information is a compilation dealing with cultivated crop plants of the British Empire and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Bull. Mis. Information, Royal Botanic Gdns., Kew. Additional Series, 12. H.M. Stationery Office, 6s. 6d. net). The list has been brought together by Mr. H. C. Sampson, economic botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, and is based on information which has been supplied by the Departments of Agriculture concerned. This is the first attempt to furnish information about tropical and subtropical plants, and is a very successful one. According to Sir Arthur Hill, in a foreword, it is hoped that this brochure will stimulate the trial of new crops. We venture to say that it will without doubt do this, but it will actually have a much wider use even than that. In the study of botany, whether at the elementary stage in schools or at the advanced stage in universities, very little economic botany finds a place, and the practical, everyday application of this important branch of science is almost completely
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Crop Plants of the British Empire. Nature 137, 544–545 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137544b0
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