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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Januabt 4, 1906. 



sites; W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, price 

 list of florists' flower seeds; Weiland & 

 Eisch, Chicago, circular on Killarney 

 rose; Jensen & Dekema, Chicago, price 

 list of rooted cuttings of carnations; 

 Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York, general 

 list of flower and vegetable seeds, plants, 

 etc.; John Peed & Son, London, Eng- 

 land, general list of vegetable and flower 

 seeds, plants, etc.; Arthur T. Bodding- 

 ton, New York, general list of flower and 

 vegetable seeds, plants and garden requi- 

 sites; E. Vincent, Jr., & Son, White 

 Marsh, Md., descriptive geranium cata- 

 logue; F. L. Tinkham, Brockton, Mass., 

 descriptive list of dahlias; California 

 Nursery Co., Nilee, Cal., complete list 

 of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, 

 etc. 



INOCULATION OF LEGUMES. 



The method of distributing practic- 

 ally pure cultures of nitrogen-fixing bac- 

 teria dried on cotton has not proved en- 

 tirely satisfactory, owing to varying con- 

 ditions of air during transit in the mails 

 and to certain matters connected with 

 laboratory technique. WhUe the number 

 of unsuccessful attempts to secure inocu- 

 lation by users of cotton cultures sent 

 out by the Department of Agriculture is 

 small, it has been recognized that the 

 methods of preparing the organisms and 

 distributing them were open to improve- 

 ments. Investigations have been under 

 way for some time with a view to im- 

 proving the methods followed, and as a 

 result the department is now prepared 

 to send out to applicants bacteriologic- 

 ally pure cultures in small tubes her- 

 metically sealed. 



The experiments carried on by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture have demon- 

 strated the fact that by the proper use 

 of practically pure cultures the nodule- 

 forming bacteria are actually carried 

 into the soil. These bacteria are able 

 to form root nodules, and where other 

 conditions are favorable the inoculation 

 thus brought about makes possible the 

 growth of a legume in soils where it 

 had failed previously from lack of bac- 

 teria. The original cultures used, how- 

 ever, must be prepared with the utmost 

 care and with a view to preserving or 

 increasing their natural power of nitro- 

 gen fixation rather than merely to make 

 them grow under favorable conditions. 



3700 

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TROPICAL. SEEDS AND PLANTS OF 

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HEVEA BRAZILIENSIS (Para Rubber) seeds 

 and stumps. On receiving a supply of 35,000 para 

 rubber stumps a rubber planting company, Hon- 

 olulu, wired us on the 19th of Aug. 1906: "Send 

 50,000 para stumps, 26,000 ends, remittance fol- 

 lows." Manihot Glaziovii Castelloa Elastica and 

 other rubber seeds and plants. Six different de- 

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 with circulars and special offers, and on view at 

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Gladiolus Balbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



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