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H O R T I C U L T U R k. 



September 8, 1906 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



Beet sugar vegetation is a major 

 Item In California industries, and what 

 is very pleasing to growers is a devel- 

 opment announced this week which 

 will solve the problem of economin 

 beet culture in this country. Professor 

 W. W. Tracy of the Department of 

 Agriculture has been here for some 

 time looking after the experiments 

 with beet seed on which the depart- 

 ment has been working for years. As 

 a result the announcement is just 

 made that a one-germ seed has been 

 developed that works wonders, and is 

 spoken of as one of the most remark- 

 able processes in plant development 

 the department scientists have ever 

 undertaken to a successful finish. A 

 beet seed in fact, they say, is not a 

 seed, but a cluster of seeds in a small 

 husk, and when planted each germ in- 

 side the husk starts a little plant, and 

 it is necessarj' to pull out all but one. 

 Abroad, where labor is cheap, this is 

 done by hand; in this country nobody 

 will do such work. Farmers want to 

 cultivate their farms from a spring- 

 seated cultivator drawn by four horses. 

 So the beet sugar industry has grown 

 slowly because there was nobody to 

 pull the superfluous beets. Secretary 

 Wilson set his scientists at work to 

 develop a beet seed with but a single 

 germ in it. This, Professor Tracy 

 says, they have now done; that last 

 year's seeds contained .'i3.13 per cent. 

 of one-germ seeds; that the experi- 

 ments began four years ago, and that 

 in three years more of evolution they 

 will have a seed with uniformly a 

 single germ. Then it can be planted 

 by machinery at proper intervals, no 

 pulling of the extra plants will be 

 necessary, cultivating and digging can 

 be done by machinery, and American 

 beets will easily supply all the coun- 

 try's sugar. 



The vegetation scientists over the 

 bay at the University of California tell 

 me that a communication has been re- 

 ceived there by friends of Dr. Hugo 

 de Vries, the eminent botanist of the 

 University of Amsterdam, who recent- 

 ly gave a course of lectures at the 

 summer school of the California Uni- 

 versity, that he is preparing an article 

 for publication in defense of Luther 

 Burbank. Dr. de Vries, the trade sci- 

 entists of California say, is one of the 

 most noted botanical authorities of the 

 present day, and his defense of Bur- 

 bank is expected to carry great weight. 



The Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticul- 

 tural Association will hold their annual 

 flower show on November 2 and 3. At 

 the last meeting of the association a 

 resolution was passed to instruct the 

 Congressmen of the district to vote 

 against the free seed distribution. 



The home-grown narcissus bulbs, 

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