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Re: Seed swaps

I'm all for damning the government and the USDA but when it comes to kudzu it was commercial interests--mainly the turn of the Ninteenth Century railroad barons that brought it into the south as a cheap control to erosion when slicing track pathways through the mountians. And it was Jackson-Perkins who brought us the multiflora rose, convincing Americans in full-color ads in magazines like Horticulture that a rose hedge was a perfect privacy wall that not only protected but flowered. PL
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Subject: Re: [GWL] Seed swaps

One of the many ironies of the government's cracking down on plant imports to
protect us all is that some of the worst thugs in town are those that were
imported and promoted and even subsidized by government agencies.  I'm
talking about the obvious ones like multiflora rose, kudzu and crown vetch,
but I'd bet there are more I don't know about. Not that commercial
horticulture's hands are squeaky clean (Lythrum, Miscanthus et al), but the
legislative approach is a definite pot & kettle situation.
 
JF
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