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up and presented at our next meeting and 

 put to a vote. 



Mr. O. Carll, head gardener from 

 Lincoln Park, is expected to talk at our 

 next meeting. Two new members were 

 enrolled. J. R. Clarke, Cor. Sec. 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD 

 HORT. SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 above society was held in Greenwich, 

 Conn., May 14. There was a good at- 

 tendance vvilh President Andrews in the 

 chair. Two honorary members were 

 elected and 3 proposals for membership 

 received. Various subjects were discussed, 

 but the principal speaker of the evening 

 was M. C. Ebel, secretary of the National 

 Association of Gardeners. For two hours 

 he kept the members' attention describing 

 the workings of the association's Service 

 Bureau, and giving hints about the better- 

 ment of the gardener's position. Mr. Ebel 

 received a rising vote of thanks. A tele- 

 gram was read from Charles Gatty regret- 

 ting that he was unable to be present, but 

 advised the boys to keep on potting. There 

 was a fine display of plants, flowers and 

 vegetables. Jack Conroy, Cor. Sec. 



THE QUESTIONNAIRE 



Subscribers arc invited to make free use 

 of tins department to solve problems that 

 may arise in their garden zoork. Questions 

 on' the ordinary pursuits of gardening, that 

 can be rcadilv answered by applying to the 

 usual reference books should not be re- 

 ferred to the Questionnaire. 



Here and There 



EFFECT OF LIGHT ON PLANTS. 



It is said that greenhouse e.xperiraents 

 conducted by the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 of the V. S. Department of .\gricuhure 

 have proved that the flowering and fruitnig 

 period cf practically any plant can be made 

 to take place at any time of the year by 

 darkening the greenhouse in the morning 

 and evening if the day is loo long, or b.v 

 lengthening the day by artificial light if 

 the day is too short. Spring Bowers and 

 Spring" crops, it is asserted, happen to be 

 Spring flowers and Spring crops because 

 the davs at the season of their flowering 

 and fruiting have the proper number of 

 hours of daylight. Experiments were con- 

 ducted with a large variety of plants. By 

 employing dark chambers, the scientists_ 

 shortened or lengthened the life cycle of 

 plants and forced some of them to com- 

 jilete two cycles in one season. Violets, 

 which natura"lly bloom only during the com- 

 paratively short days of Spring, when cov- 

 ered with light-proof boxes for a time 

 were made to l)loom again during the Sum- 

 mer. Temperature appeared to e.xert no 

 influence in ihe tests. The relative unim- 

 portance of temperature was demonstrated 

 in the fact that plants kept in the dark for 

 a part of the day underwent in Midsum- 

 mer the changes that in nature come in 

 the Fall, and that heretofore have been 

 attributed to lower temperatures. This was 

 true even when the dark houses registered 

 a higher temperature than the outside 

 atmosphere. Iris kept in artificial light foi 

 ei.ghteen hours a day bloomed in two 

 monlhs, while others in the same tempera- 

 ture, but without artificial extension of the 

 day, required months longer. The new 

 principle is said to explain why plants grow 

 iro«t luxnri'uislv near the northern limit of 



their range, where the l.ing day permits 

 nia.ximum vegetative growth before the 

 short day intervenes to start reproduction. 



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