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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 15. 1906. 



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The appropriation for the free dis - 

 tribution of seeds for next year is now 

 before congress and will be decided upon 

 for or against by the first of April. The 

 original law, ehacted in 1862, authorized 

 the Department of Agriculture to dis- 

 tribute only new and valuable seeds and 

 plants: This authority has been 

 stretched into annually increasing pro- 

 portions, and has departed entirely from 

 the idea embodied in the law. No at- 

 tempt has been made to work strictly 

 aloEg the lines laid down originally ; only 

 the commonest kind of seeds have been 

 sent out, and in such enormous quanti- 

 ties as to seriously hamper |^ postal 

 service. They have been distnbuted at 

 random, causing a reckless waste of pub- 

 lic money. All right-minded people con- 

 cede that it is an unwarranted use of 

 public funds, and if you will write im- 

 mediately upon receipt of this, today, to 

 your representative in congress urging 

 him to use his best efforts to cancel the 

 appropriation for free seeds, you will 

 aid in having a very valuable work ac- 

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SEED NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



The retail seed houses in iiingland are 

 now in full swing and they look to be 

 having a good time. The advertising is 

 heavier than ever before and some of 

 the catalogues of the large houses are 

 perfect works of art and complete gar- 

 den guides in themselves. No amateur 

 need do more than get a catalogue from 

 such houses as Kelway's, of Longport; 

 Sutton's, of Eeauing, or Veitch's, of 

 Chelsea, to know all his hobby and by 

 following the directions given can be 

 sure of moderate success in almost any 

 seed he buys. No one can accuse the 

 British retail seedsman of not being 

 enterprising and up-to-date. 



I notice we have some well-known 

 names from America entering the ranks 

 and catering to the British amateur seed 

 user. We have seed firms now delivering 

 to the public by post and otherwise di- 

 rect from Germany, France, Holland, 

 Denmark and America. All these firms 

 might be content to supply the British 

 seedsman wholesale. They would not be 

 losers in the long run. B. J. 



ADAPTATION TO LOCALITY. 



In a recent bulletin of the Nebraska 

 Experiment Station reporting a series 

 of experiments of different kinds on 

 com, T. L. Lyon makes the following 

 statements, which have a most important 

 bearing on the same general subject: 



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country for a number of years is moved 

 to another section where soil and climate 

 are different the plant always under- 

 goes more or less change during the first 

 two or three years before it becomes 

 ' ' adapted " to its new conditions. 



The definite effect of climate in modi- 

 fying the corn plant is shown in the fol- 

 lowing experiment : Seed of two vari- 

 eties of corn, Snowflake White and Iowa 

 Gold Mine, was obtained from Iowa and 

 grown in Nebraska for two years. In 

 the third year seed was taken from this, 

 and seed was also obtained from the 

 same original source in Iowa. These 

 were all planted in adjacent plats at the 

 experiment station. A marked difference 

 was shown throughout the experiment 

 between the different plats. In the 

 Snowflake White variety the stalk from 

 the seed that had grown in central 

 Nebraska for two years had decreased 

 almost a foot in height, the ear was 8.8 

 inches lower down and the ear shank 

 almost two inches shorter, while the 

 plants from Nebraska seed had an aver- 

 age of 1.2 fewer leaves. 



The weight of both stalk and ear was 

 found to be heavier in the corn grown 

 from the seed just from Iowa, but the 



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proportion of ear to stalk was higher in 

 the acclimated corn. The Nebraska corn 

 averaged almost 200 square inches less 

 leaf area, which was to be expected of 

 plants grown in a drier climate. The 

 yield of grain was in favor of the home- 

 grown seed. 



The lesson to be learned from this is 

 that to get the best results in corn grow- 

 ing the seed must be home-grown, and 

 grown not only in the same state, but in 

 the "same locality. 



