In the 1890s, the U.S. hired a team of globe-trotting plant hunters0

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• August 9, 2026

Adapted from Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans and Where We All Belong, by Amy Crawford (Oxford University Press). In 1922, Popular Science ran an exclusive interview with Henry C. Wallace, then the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, about a small division of his department that had an outsize influence on Americans’ dinner tables—and imaginations.  “[A] little band