Professor Yang Shao-pu, who at that time directed the Yangmingshan Experimental Flower Center, recalls that in those austere years, when people barely had enough to eat, government research resources were all put into the then Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction's work on cash crops.
早年主持陽明山花卉試驗中心的楊紹溥教授回憶，在那民以食為天的艱難年代，政府的研究資源都投注在農復會經濟作物上，「還顧不得桂子飄香」，他說。