THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



ment altogether, or for a share of their 

 time, might find in his example a way 

 out of poverty to the high road of pros- 

 perity? It's worth while thinking of these 

 things and — doing them. If Mr. Wing 

 should be compelled for any reason to 

 give up his shop work he is all ready, 

 through his self-acquired knowledge of 

 strawberry culture, to step into a paying 

 business and make a success of it. Such 

 an experience ought to be an inspiration 

 to everyone. 



Stands By Pedigree in Plants 



IN a paper recently read before the 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety on "The Seedling Apple Or- 

 chard," J. M. Underwood of Lake City, 

 took occasion to advocate the pedigree 

 idea in plants, comparing the work done 

 in the matter of plants to that achieved 

 by breeders of animals. He declared 

 that the vegetable should be as intelli- 

 gently treated as the animal kingdom and 

 varieties as carefully selected and bred. 

 Horticulturists should learn a lesson from 

 the animal breeders, who have attained 

 such wonderful and satisfactory results. 

 Horticulture has had too little attention 

 given it, and should take its proper place. 

 If horticulturists had spent as much time 

 on peaches as stockmen have on horses, 

 Minnesota would be shipping peaches 

 (and strawberries, too. — Editor Straw- 

 berry) of late varieties to the South. 



Hardiness can be secured said Mr. 

 Underwood. Prof. Hansen has bred a 

 hardy raspberry that stands up and defies 

 the Dakota climate without protection. 

 A hardy cherry is needed. If Burbank 

 could improve the black walnut in Cali- 

 fornia, why not in Minnesota.? Much 

 more could have been done had plant 

 breeding been as well understood as now 

 when northwestern horticulturists began 

 their work. There should be a herd- 

 book of horticulture, a record of plant 

 breeding. Some plan should be devised 

 for a plant breeders' society with a pedi- 

 gree book. Get to work in a more prac- 

 tical way, and more will be accomplished 

 in ten years than in the past forty. 



One by one the thinking horticultur- 

 ists of the country are coming to under- 

 stand this matter, and twenty years from 

 now the man who sneers at pedigree 

 plants will be put into the same category 

 with the tumble-down farmer who sees 

 no difference between scrub animals and 

 pure-breds. 



In this connection it is interesting to 

 note that Mr. Underwood is the leader 

 in the movement which has resulted in 

 the organization among the members of 

 the Minnesota Horticultural Society of 

 the Minnesota Plant Breeders' Associa- 

 tion, which shows that it means business 

 by the way it does things. For instance, 

 the association offers .$500 in premiums 

 to encourage the breeding of apples from 



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On This Genuine 1906 

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YOU see we make more incubators than 

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This means high grade machines at low 

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Now we are after the trade with an Incu- 

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seedlings, and it has established an ad- 

 vanced record book, like the advanced 

 herd book of the dairy breeders, where 

 only such fruits and flowers will be re- 

 corded as possess special merit. 



The Strawberry would like to see 

 e\ery state in the Union follow the fine 

 e.xample thus set by Minnesota. 



Proper Mating of Varieties 



THERf) is great confusion among 

 strawberry growers, and particularly 

 in the case of beginners, regarding 

 the proper mating of varieties— mating 

 them so that the largest possible yields 

 may be secured. Improper mating results 

 not only in reducing the yield to an 

 unprofitable point, but in prodtuing 

 rough, hard, poorly formed and poorly 

 flavored fruit. So many ha^•e asked us 

 the cause of these troubles that we pre- 

 sent herewith a sort of schedule for 

 the proper handling of pistillate varieties. 

 It will be observed that we place the 

 pistillate, or female, varieties in rows be- 



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