Excerpt from A Report on the Uncultivated Bast Fibers of the United States: Including the History of Previous Experiments With the Plants or Fibers, and Brief Statements Relating to the Allied Species That Are Produced Commercially in the Old World Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the manuscript for Report no. 6 of the Fiber Investigations series, referring to the indigenous or uncultivated plants of the United States whose bast is known to con tain fiber of greater or less value. The publication of the life history, and the description of the uses of these fiber plants by the Department is important, not only because the literature of the subject, as it per tains to our own country, is so meager, but from the fact that frequent inquiry is made concerning the difierent forms by correspondents of the Department. In connection with the native species and those introduced and now perfectly naturalized, herein described, I have referred to a few allied foreign Species that have been cultivated to some extent in the Old World, for the sake of comparison or to supply hints regarding growth or preparation of the fiber of our own forms. Examples of the fiber from all these native forms were represented in the Department's Fiber Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. A report on the culti vated bast fibers, containing new and useful information, and another report relating to the palm and miscellaneous fibers will follow this publication. 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.

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