March 22. 1919 



H OHTIfiULTUH E 



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SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President. F. W. Bolciano, 

 Washington, D.O.J First V ice-President, 

 Wm. G. Scarlett, Baltimore, Mi].; Second 

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Cabbage Seed Supply Low. 

 The shortage of cabbage seed is 

 leading plant pathologists at the Wis- 

 consin College of Agriculture to ad- 

 vise treating all the seed with corro- 

 sive sublimate „c.ore it is planted. 

 Seed shortage combined with high 

 prices is throwing on the market an 

 unusual amount of seed infected with 

 black leg and black rot. The supply 

 of Danish seed is not available this 

 year and the New York seed supply 

 has also decreased. 



The treatment, as given by R. E. 

 Vaughan. plant pathologist, is: "Use a 

 solution of 1 part corrosive sublimate 

 to 100 parts of water. The corrosive 

 sublimate is sold in small tablets. It 

 is extremely poisonous and for that 

 reason should be handled carefully 

 and kept out of the way of children 

 and animals. 



"Put the cabbage seed in a small bag 

 and place it in the solution for 30 

 minutes, remove from the solution and 

 rinse in clear water, then empty the 

 seeds from the bag and dry them on 

 paper or cloth." 



TREES, SHRUBS, MS and 

 HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS 



By JOHN KIRKEGAARD 



Formerly Assistant to Director of the Boyal 

 Botanical Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

 Latterly Twenty Years In American For- 

 estry and Botanical Work. 



Assisted by DR. H. T. FEENALI), 



Professor of Entomology Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College and Entomologist, 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 



and PROF. E. A. WHITE, 



Professor of Floriculture, New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



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HOW TO GROW RUST-RESISTANT 

 ASPARAGUS. 



The Washington family of rust-re- 

 sistant asparagus, developed by the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture in co-operation with the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and other co-operators throughout 

 the country as the result of thirteen 

 years of effort, is now well dissemin- 

 ated among interested growers and 

 seedsmen, some of whom have avail- 

 able stocks of the new strains for sale. 

 The pedigreed stock thus far dis- 

 tributed to growers is intended to 

 form a basic stock for further breed- 

 ing work. The Department of Agri- 

 culture announces that while it will 

 continue to distribute the new strains, 

 private enterprise must be looked to 

 henceforth to furnish the general 

 trade with its main supply of seeds 

 and roots. 



The department will not make gen- 

 eral distributions of seeds or roots of 

 the new strains. The names of firms 

 and individual growers who have 

 stocks of the new strains may be ob- 

 tained from the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Department of Agriculture. 



Growers Should Keep Records. 



Improved stocks thus far distributed 

 are from matings of the male plant 

 Washington with the female plants 

 Martha and Mary and two other 

 females as yet unnamed, R2-22 and 

 R4-101. Pedigree numbers or combina- 

 tions of unnamed females with Wash- 

 ington, it is pointed out, should be pre- 

 served by growers, as some of them 

 will be named later and these records 

 will be valuable. 



Cultural suggestions for the growing 

 of the new strains include early sow- 

 ing, clean seed beds, a small percent- 

 age of spinach or radish seeds to mark 

 the row for cultivation before the 

 asparagus seedlings show, the drop- 

 ping of seed by hand five or six to the 



foot, cultivation between the rows 

 with cultivators or scuffle hoes, and 

 removal of weeds in the rows by hand. 

 At the end of the season the tops 

 should be allowed to die down to make 

 a covering for holding snow. A layer 

 of coarse hay or stray to prevent win- 

 ter-killing should be put on after the 

 ground has frozen. 



How to Handle Seedlings. 



In digging seedlings great pains 

 should be taken to preserve all the 

 storage roots unbroken and unbruised. 

 Trimming the roots down to a uniform 

 length of six or eight inches is strong- 

 ly condemned. One-year-old roots are 

 said to do better than two-year-old 

 roots of the same stock. It has been 

 found inadvisable to plant a perma- 

 nent bed on ground occupied by seed- 

 lings the year before. 



The ideapshoot should be about an 

 inch in diameter, straight and not 

 much flattened, of clean growth, with 

 scales fitting closely in a tight bud. 



The new pedigreed strains, to be 

 available for seed production, must 

 not be planted in fields near inferior 

 varieties. 



The grower who expects to sell seeds 

 or roots is reminded that constant 

 care is necessary to keep up a high 

 standard. 



To get the best returns from fields 

 of the new strains for market pur- 

 poses, they should be labeled and sold 

 as Washington asparagus. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 recently issued a circular giving in- 

 formation on the breeding and culture 

 of the new ru6t-resistant strains of as- 

 paragus supplementary to that on gen- 

 eral asparagus growing contained in 

 Farmers' Bulletin 829. 



Albany, Ga. — The J. S. Smith Seed 

 Co. of Columbus, Ga., have opened a 

 branch store in this city. 



