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Suger canes


Title Sugar canes
Caption Saccharum officinarum
Source Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950.
Date 1950
URL http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=saof_001_avd.tif
Creator AS Hitchcock
Type Drawing
Origin Internet
Notes Hariot; p.11 They brought sugar cane, cultivation unsuccessful.; Jacques; p.23,24 Sugar-cane, Saccharum officinarum L. and Sorghum spp.; Lawson; Mentions sugar, sugar tree, and sugar cane . . . no mention of attempts to grow sugar cane in NC.;
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Suger canes