The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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November 14, 1007. 



and the removal of headquarters, was 

 filed with the secretary of state Novem- 

 ber 1. 



J. A. Everitt is president of the com- 

 pany. Mr. Everitt is known all over the 

 country as the reputed organizer of the 

 American Society of Equity. He re- 

 signed the presidency under the fire 

 brought against him at the last national 

 meeting of the association in Indian- 

 apolis three weeks ago. 



INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE. 



A Factor Often Disregarded. 



The producer of garden vegetables and 

 flowers, who grows them for profit, is 

 generally disposed to lay blame upon 

 the seedsman for all departures from de- 

 sired types, but the thoroughly practical 

 seed grower, who most intensely watches 

 the development of his plants from the 

 seedling stage up to full maturity, ob- 

 serving every unusual change in tem- 

 perature and moisture, or in manurial 

 or soil effects, bringing about a corre- 

 sponding variation in form, color, text- 

 ure and flavor, if in the case of vegeta- 

 bles or fruits, knows enough to place 

 the blame, most generally, on natural 

 causes. Generally variation in a few 

 individuals comes from the good or bad 

 influence of heredity, but when varia- 

 tion covers an entire field, it is either 

 from bad seed or some local influence of 

 climate or soil. 



While variation, generally in the di- 

 rection of retrogression, is undesirable, 

 it is well that there is a tendency to 

 change characteristics of form, color and 

 flavor, as if it were not, then very few 

 novel vegetables, fruits or flowers would 

 exist, as twenty to one new introduc- 

 tions have been obtained by seizing upon 

 ushance natural developments and not by 

 the practice of cross-breeding, as so gen- 

 erally claimed by some in the seed busi- 

 ness. 



This freak development, or "sport- 

 ing," as it is termed, generally in- 

 duced by climatic checks, will forever 

 continue, not the result alone of acci- 

 dental cross-poUenization in the field, 

 but in the great majority of cases the 

 outcropping of earlier forms, if not 

 sometimes the most primitive conditions. 

 Take the ears of pod corn, for exam- 

 ple, sometimes found in the fields of 

 the highest bred stock. 



The general merchant selling seeds in 

 city or country is not a student of vege- 

 table physiology, and when he receives a 

 complaint from one of his agricultural 

 customers he at once flies to the con- 

 clusion that the seedsman, has robbed 

 th«n both, and he sits down and writes 

 an ill-considered letter. 



Weather Influeoce on Cabbage. 



As an illustration of weather influ- 

 ences, the writer points to observations 

 of the last summer in the Bloomsdale 

 trial grounds, where, among other things, 

 there were two trial patches of cabbage, 

 100 samples of 100 plants each, both 

 patches duplicates of each other, but 

 the second set out in the field eight 

 weeks after the first. The season was a 

 freaky one throughout and, as would be 

 expected by any student of plant growth, 

 the results were very conflicting. With 

 these two cabbage patches, those kinds 

 as a rule which were the best in the 

 early patch were among the worst in the 

 late patch, and those which were first 



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condemned gave satisfaction on the late 

 trial. 



Suppose instead of one observer hav- 

 ing both these patches of cabbage, the 

 fields were under the observation of two 

 different men at distant points. In this 

 case each would draw opposite conclu- 

 sions and neither be right. 



Just at present, through the river 

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