unday News, Sune t 3, A20-Sunday News, June 8, 1980 Secret of Giant vegetables MARTIN P. HOUSEMAN VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico (UPI) - The case of J. Carmen Garcia's giant vegetables gets “curiouser and curiouser.” Garcia, the marvel of the marketplace in his village in a produce-rich valley in Guanajuato state 260 miles northwest of Mexico City, perennially brings in 50- pound cabbages and 10- pound onions and 5-feet- long collard greens. How does he do it? He says a man — claiming extra-terrestrial, under- ground-dwelling humanoids who live on giant vegetables held him in a subterranean prison — gave him a scrap of paper containing a formula of symbols. Garcia said he gained inspiration for his own growing talents from contemplating the formula. Whatever one thinks of the extra-terrestrial con- nection, the existénce of the vegetables is undeniable. Garcia produces them year in and year out. Photographs exist. 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In February, United Press International transmitted an illustrated dispatch about Garcia based on an article in San Diego Home and Garden Magazine by Robinson. After the UPI dispatch, Robinson received over 1,000 letters from would-be green thumbs around the world, requesting more information, including two from the U.S. Department of Agriculture plant patholo- gists in Florida and California. Awed by the sudden in- terest, Robinson felt duty bound to return to Mexico to seek more information from Garcia. UPI tagged along as interpreter. Garcia was less. than overjoyed to see Robinson again. “Last week on one day | had people here from New Zealand, -Venezuela, France, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Germany and the United States,” Garcia said. “I tell them ‘Stay here six months and I'll teach you the’ method. Finally they go away, but others come. It’s hard for me to get any work done.” A quick look around the tidy parcel disclosed no giant vegetables among the rows of cabbage, tomato and other plants. “This is the winter crop, and I'm expernmenting now with. getting higher yields instead of the giant vegetables.” Garcia said. “But some of these foreigners say I can't grow the big ones so I’m going to grow them bigger than ever for the September harvest. Caramba! I’ve been growing them since 1973, and I can do it whenever I want to.” He also said he did not want to discuss his formula. “What is important is that the way [to grow. giant vegetables has been put in a safe place for the benefit of humanity,” he said. The chosen deposxory for mankind, it turns oc the Rosicrucian Order San Jose, Cali A spokesman for the Rosicrucian Order said the organization had been given the forum but “we do not have the faintest idea whether it is valid or not.” Another official said his order is conducting agricultural expenmments at San Jose based on the in- formatin on the giant vegetables. “Yes, the experimentation centers On energizing the seeds,” he said. “The energy source? The energization is imparted by the human mind.” Curiouser and cunouser. IN_ NOVA SCOTIA Legislature gets entrusted to Rosicrucian Order all its work done - HALIFAX (UPC) - The Nova Scotia legislature prorogued Thursday and may not meet again until next year because the members succeeded so well in passing the bills before it, Premier John Buchanan. said Thursday. The 52-member legis- lature headed home shortly after Lt.-Gov. 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