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Highland Park Press, 2 Aug 1928, p. 10

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©OCCASIONALLY HAPPENS Believed That in Earlier Periods Sporadic Cases "The cultivated banana which we eat is said tq d’lup seeds in sporâ€" adic cases, similar to those of the wild banana," said D. Dahigren, "but I know of no authentic instance, and such seeds are probably rarer than pearls in oysters, if not as scarce as Did you ever bite into a banana and get a mouthful of seeds, as big as hazel nuts and as hard as bullets? This may happen to you some day, but probably it never will, declares Dr. B. E. Dahigren, acting curator of botany at Field Museum of Natâ€" ural History, as he placed on exhiâ€" bition two specimens of Fanana seed. One of these has just been received from Panama, where it is an introâ€" duced plant; the other is from India. 5, 10 and 15 year plans, straight or with preâ€"payment privileges Half Block West of Deerfield State Bank An inexperienced laanupe gardener may spend a great deal of money on your grounds with very little worthwhile accomâ€" plishment. While a small amount properly spent by an expert will show real, artistic results. Surely, your grounds deserve the best of attentionâ€"and it costs less in the long run. Telephone H. P. 523 . PRAIRIE â€" AVENUE, HIGHWOOD, ILL. Good Taste in Landscaping Highland Park Press Let us show you our new samples reâ€" sembling engraving. Cards, Invitations, Announcements, Stationery. Does away with the cost of a plate. UPTOWN BARBER SHOP ist Explains On. Saturdays Adults _ e Children‘s Haircutting Something New in Printing Thoroughly Sanitary â€"2 Chairs Our loans are purchased by Landscape Gardening hen‘s teeth,. The chances of finding a fruit with seeds are apparently not to be jawâ€"breakers. They would be black, and of the size and consistency of shoe buttons. "In the cultivated species of baâ€" nana the seeds have degenerated into specks observed in the center of the fruit. The banana plants bearing these species are propagated by ‘suckâ€" ers‘ or sprouts which shoot from the the spread of the banana to many parts of the world far from its anâ€" cestral home in southeastern Asia." Species Has Seeds Dr. Dahigren explained that most of the 50 for more species of wild banana piants bearing inedible fruit multiply by means of seeds; some of them by sprouts as well. The Panâ€" ama seeds received at the museum were obtained by a joint expedition of Yale university and the Field Museâ€" um. They are from a species comâ€" monly called the "virgin" banana, which is said to have no sprouts; it sends up only a solitary stem, while the cultivated banana plant, once esâ€" tablished keeps producing new fruitâ€" ing stems almost indefinitely. undergrohnd stem. These have great vitality, a fact which has facilitated The elimination of the seeds in the Deerfield, Illinois mhwhnmr The frontal ares is considerably lesa ously in the ancestors of -!fil'!-*-!!“!fl!!-w_-» vated bananas, or may have taken place after the banans began to be which seeds are not common, and not abundant when they do occur, he said. "But all we know definitely about the history of the edible banana‘s loss of seeds is that it happened before the time of Burbank,"> Dr. Dhigren Equipped with 12 cylinders and called the 490 h.p.. Rollsâ€"Royce F.â€"12 this engine will add about thirty miles and hour to the speed of heavily loadâ€" ed bombing planes. It uses in proporâ€" tion to its power, less fuel, and has a smaller frontal area, than any other standard aero engine in the world, according to International News. BRITISH DEVELOP NEW MOTOR OF 1000 H. P. 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