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HORTICULTURE 



March 20, 1909 



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SEnVCI-LIQ U X-LJ, 



For bedding glass in sash or for filling cracks or seatns In root Joints or framit 



OF OREEKHOnsES OR HOT BEDS. 



Is used in Machine or Bulb. 



If too thick lor bulb thin with a little 

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makes a solid bed, impervious 



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crevice or fault. 



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Dr. H. J. Webber, professor of ex- 

 perimental plant breeding In Cornell 

 University, spolse before the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society Febru- 

 ary 13 in the Saturday lecture course. 

 His subject was "The Outlook for 

 Plant Breeding," and he said in sub- 

 stance: 



Despoiling Our Resources. 



The nineteenth century has been 

 characterized by Alfred Russell Wal- 

 lace, the great English biologist and 

 contemporary of Darwin, as a century 

 of despoilation of the natural re- 

 sources of the world. In our greed for 

 wealth, the soil, minerals, forests and 

 all natural resources, rightly the herit- 

 age of the children of the world for 

 all time, have been wantonly depleted 

 without thought of the future genera- 

 tions that must follow us. In the be- 

 ginning of the twentieth century it is 

 meet that we should pause in our mad 

 race for wealth and thoughtfully con- 

 sider if we are doing our duty by our 

 children and our children's children, 

 who are to inherit the earth after we 

 are gone. It has been said that the 



THE PRIZE WINNING STRAWBERRY 



The Barrymore 



Send for Folder at Once. 



H. Lm CRANE, Orlolnmt»f, 



WestwoBd Maas. 



THE STRAWBERRY BLIGHT, ITS 

 CAUSE AND CURE. 



How to more than double the yield of 

 crop ^rltbont Increasing the cost of pro- 

 duction. A great dlscoverr. Price of 

 hook $S. Worth $25. 



WM. G. TRIMBLE, 



Princeton, (III. 



greatest of all Inventions which we 

 inherit is the alphabet, and I presume 

 it may be as truthfully claimed that 

 the greatest of all heritages which 

 have come down to us from our an- 

 cestors are the cultivated plants de- 

 veloped by centuries of unconscious 

 selection for man's cultivation and 

 use. As agriculture is the foundation 

 of civilization, so the cultivated plants 

 are the foundation of agriculture, as 

 plants must necessarily precede ani- 

 mals to support them. 



The early history of our cultivated 

 plants is shrouded In mystery, the 

 wild types from which they have 

 sprung being in many cases entirely 

 unknown, the modifications which 

 have taken place being so profound 

 in many cases, as to preclude the 

 recognition of the wild prototypes if 

 they are now living. Each century 

 has Inherited increasingly better and 

 better sorts from the preceding cen- 

 tury. It would seem to us today, that 

 we have nearly reached the limit of 

 perfection, yet I am led to wonder 

 when I review the tremendous possi- 

 bilities opened to me by my past 

 fifteen years of research in the field 

 of plant breeding, if we are really do- 

 ing all in this field of development 

 which the world has a right to ex- 

 pect of us. 



If we are to feed the increasing mil- 

 lions of our population with our soil 

 depleted in fertility, with our mineral 

 deposits of nitrate of soda, potash and 

 phosphates approaching exhaustion, we 

 must use strenuous methods to improve 

 our plants to the highest degree of effi- 

 ciency. 



Where to Look for Relief. 



Where, now, can the breeder enter 

 with profit into this field? When our 

 nitrogen fertilizers fail, where are 'we 

 to get fertilizers for our great cereal 

 crops which art- more important than 

 any other crop In feeding the world? 

 Wheat, com and rice are not legumes. 

 With what can we fertilize our pota- 

 toes, which In many countries, are the 

 staple article of food and the valuation 



of which in the world as a whole, ex- 

 ceeds that of our "King Corn." It is 

 quite probable that the various legumes 

 known to fix free nitrogen can be im- 

 proved, made more important and led 

 to assume a much greater part in food 

 production. Beans, which are nitro- 

 gen-fixing legumes, now make a flou^-, 

 fron. which buns, biscuits, griddle 

 cakes, etc.. can tie made which nearly 

 equal similar products from wheat and 

 com flour. Beans, peas and other 

 legumes, must ultimately be bred par- 

 ticularly for this purpose. Several wild 

 legumes, as yet entirely undomesti- 

 caied, produce tubers which are fairly 

 large and wholesome as food. These 

 may be bred as substitutes for pota- 

 toes, by breeding varieties suited to 

 growth on nitrogen-free soils. 



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 widely known as 



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