Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1917 — An Educational Garden. [ARTICLE]

An Educational Garden.

The educational garden of Dr. J. JS. Hurry, a horticulturist of Reading. England, is a novelty as a private enterprise. Useful plants of various kinds are grouped in several special plots. Among plants employed in medicine are eucalyptus, belladonna, aconite, stramonium, gentian, liquorice, podophyllin, asafetida, valerian, henbane, castor oil, cinchona, and opium poppy; foods include such plants as maize, millet, sugar, rice, bananas, arrowroot, ginger, pepper, chicory, olive, and earnamon; plants supplying clotting and textile materials embrace flax, hemp, cotton, jute, ramie, and nettle; as woad, indigo, madder, dyers weed, turmeric, annatto, and alkanet Conservatories, display tea, coffee, soy* beans, monkey-nuts, guava, chick pea* cinnamon, and camphor. In the garden is also a museum, and In this numerous industrial products are shown, with labels referring to the plant* from which they are derived. On certain days the public, including the older school children, is given free admi* sion to the garden. * J