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HORTICULTURE 



January 15, 1910 



MIC HELL'S NEW CROP FLOWER SEEDS 



VERBENA 



nichell's Mammoth Fancy Strain 



Cannot be excelled for large size, purity of color 

 and free flowering qualities- 



Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



Blue $0.30 $1.25 



Pink .30 1.25 



Scarlet .30 1.25 



Striped .30 1.2« 



White .30 1.2S 



Mixed .30 1.00 



IMPATIENS 



Holstll 

 SultanI 



Tr. Plcl. Oi. 

 $050 

 .30 



MOON FLOWER 



IpomaeaNoctifloraper i^lb. $1.50 .15 $0.50 



MAURANOYA 



Barclayana Purple .20 1.25 



Mixed .20 1.25 



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New Crop. Greenhouse Grown 



100 Seeds $0.50 



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1000 " 3.50 



5000 " 16 00 



10000 " 30.00 



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acters which of themselves are of no 

 practical utility may become very im- 

 portant because of their correlation 

 with invisible and intangible qualities 

 v'hich are of great practical import- 

 ance. For instance, the character of 

 the point of a bean pod is of itself of 

 no economic importance, but it is an 

 ■indication of the relative development 

 of woody fiber, and the consequent 

 stringiness and quality of the pod, and 

 such illustrations might be multiplied 

 indefinitely. 



Possibly some of you may think that 

 the study of slight varietal difference 

 is not very important work, and is 

 hardly worthy of the attention of the 

 scientist. Others may think it is not 

 of practical importance and time 

 would be more wisely spent in com- 

 pounding a properly balanced food ra- 

 tion or spraying material or designing 

 a "snide" package that will look 

 larger than standard, but when one is 

 studying natural forces and conditions, 

 nothing is too small to be worthy of 

 most careful study, and the discern- 

 ment of what may seem to the super- 

 ficial observer to be trifling differ- 

 ences, may be of the greatest import- 

 ance. 



All education is simply the training 

 of the mind to note differences and 

 what they stand for. Your child goes 

 to the liindergarten and learns to note 

 the differences between a full circle 

 and one that is open on one side with 

 the upper end turned back, and one 

 that Is open on the side with the 

 lower end turned back, and that the 

 first stands for O, the second for C, 

 and the last for G, and If he even be- 

 comes an Agassiz or an Edison, it is 

 because he sees and comes to imder- 

 stand the significance of a difference 

 in the bones of a fish or the color of 

 an electr'c spark which you or I 

 either could not see at all or would 

 regard as of little importance, cer- 

 tainly as not worthy the attention of 

 a great scientist. The differences in 

 the broken circle of the letters stand 

 for nothing to the Indian, but he fol- 

 lows a track in the forest by means of 

 the direction in which the broken twig 

 hangs or upturned leaf lay which 

 would signify nothing to an Agassiz or 

 an Edison. The direction in which a 

 broken twig falls or the shape of a 

 fossil bone may mean nothing to us, 

 but the shape of the cotyledons of 

 seedling lettuce or the color of the 

 flowers on a bean plant does or it 

 ought to, and we will raise lettuce and 



beans which will best meet our condi- 

 tions and requirements in proportion 

 as we come to note such difterences 

 and use seed which will more uni- 

 formly develop into plants of the ex- 

 act varietal character best suited to 

 our conditions. 



GERMAN DEMAND FOR TOBACCO 

 EXTRACT. 



Consul-General Robert P. Skinner, of 

 Hamburg, calls attention to the in- 

 creasing demand in Germany for this 

 American product: 



Small supplies of the American ex- 

 tract have been sent to the large nur- 

 sery gardens in Halstenbad, Pinueherg, 

 and elsewhere, and have given what 

 are described as "astonishing results." 

 Plant pests of various species which 

 pursue their work of destruction both 

 above and under the soil have been 

 successfully combated with a solution 

 of 1 to 400 parts of water, the dose 

 varying according to the nature of the 

 plants treated. 



A still greater demand for this ar- 

 ticle is in a fair way to be created 

 among vineyard owners whose vines 

 have been suffering without known 

 remedy from "sauerwurm," or trau- 

 benwichler (conchylis ambiguella 

 Hubu) a genus of the Tortricidae. 

 This is a vineyard moth commonly 

 found In Germany, Switzerland, France 

 and northern Italy, and of a genus 

 related to that known in the United 

 States as the grape berry moth, con- 

 cerning which a pamphlet by Mr. V. 

 Seingerland was published by Cornell 

 University in 1904. This month flies in 

 two generations annually; the first in 

 April and the second in June or July. 

 The brownish red caterpillar lives 

 from the middle of May until the mid- 

 dle of June as the "heuwurm," and 

 from the end of August until the end 

 of September as the "sauerwurm." The 

 pupa of the former is lodged in the 

 leaves of the vine, which are rolled up 

 by the caterpillar, while the latter hi- 

 bernates in cocoons on the trunks and 

 trellis posts of the vines. These cater- 

 pillars feed on the blossoms or newly 

 formed fruit of the grape cluster and 

 work great damage. 



Various methods of destruction have 

 been adopted, including the sprinkling 

 of chemicals over the vines, and the 

 trapping of the moths on glue-coated 

 fans to which they are attracted at 

 night by lamps or fires, and finally by 

 burning the hibernating pupae after 

 scraping them from the trunks and 



trellises. The remedy, in most cases, 

 proved to be only moderately effica- 

 cious, and damaged the quality of the 

 wine almost as seriously as the worms 

 themselves. 



Some eighteen months ago a Ham- 

 burg importer of American tobacco 

 extract brought it to the attention 

 of the Konigliche Weinbau-Versuchs- 

 station at Neustadt on the Haardt, by 

 which excellent organization it was 

 carefully tested, eliciting on November 

 2, 1909, the following words of com- 

 mendation: "Your product has, in- 

 deed, shown better results than any 

 other chemical applied." My infor- 

 mant was so encouraged by this re- 

 port that he is preparing to do a very 

 large business. 



Useful addresses in conection with 

 the German importation of tobacco ex- 

 tract may be obtained from the Bureau 

 of Manufacturers. 



SULFOCIDE. 



In the multitude of sprays of vary- 

 ing value which now flood the coun- 

 try this product of the B. G. Pratt 

 Company, the introducers of the well- 

 approved "Scalecide," stands out as 

 being a compound of the highest value 

 and efficiency with the lowest com- 

 parative cost. The introducers have a 

 plentiful supply of testimonials to 

 show and these and all other desired 

 information can be had for the aslc- 

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