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NOVBMBBS 14, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



49 



This retarded condition of the growth of 

 cabbage doee not apply to the high land 

 districts of Pennsylvania. 



Vadatlon With Onioiu. 



Again, of two large fields of Yellow 

 Strasburg onion seed drilled for sets, 

 one patch planted the middle of April 

 made perfect sets, while, with the same 

 seed, the other field, sown two weeks 

 later, all went to stage or thick necks. 



Another case with onion seed: Two 

 fields sown for onion sets by neighbors 

 on contract, each sown with identical 

 seed, but at intervals of ten days, pro- 

 duced in the one case a perfect develop- 

 ment of plants and raised an enormous 

 crop, five or six bushels to every pound 

 drilled, but in the other, a three-acre 

 field, because of a pelting rainfall, re- 

 sulted in an absolute failure to germi- 

 nate; a failure so great as to warrant 

 the ploughing up of the field and the 

 sacrifice of 300 pounds of seed. 



On Bloomsdale two fields of cucumbers 

 of the same sort, and out of the same 

 bag, planted side by side, one planted 

 in May, the other in June, were, the 

 early one a complete success, and an ab- 

 solute failure as respects the later 

 planted. 



With root crops there is a great vari- 

 ation in shape and texture under differ- 

 ent conditions of temperature and rain- 

 fall, and with spinach under favorable 

 conditions it will be of such a deep 

 green and rampant growth as to seem 

 of an entirely distinct breed from plants 

 from the same seed grown without the 

 necessary amount of water. 



Cauliflower aod Bgs Plant* 



Cauliflower is largely dependent for 

 successful culture on climatic condi- 

 tions. It flourishes best when under the 

 influences of salt air, as on the coast. 

 Yet salt air, or any form of irrigation, is 

 not always a necessity, for altitude 

 seems to take its place, cauliflower doing 

 well on the sides of many mountains 

 when it proves an absolute failure in the 

 bottoms of valleys within sight. 



For some years there has been sold 

 seed of the so-called High Bush egg 

 plant, a form which, because of its 

 growth in Florida, has acquired an ex- 

 ceedingly rampant habit; but why not 

 take the seed grown upon the island of 

 Trinidad, where the climatic influence 

 has changed the modest vine of the north, 

 twenty-four inches high, to a tree of 

 eight feet or moret Both the Florida 

 and Trinidad varieties have been in- 

 creased alone by climatic variations. 



Many of the showy sorts of field corn 

 grown under the favorable climatic in- 

 fluence of the southwest, have often 

 been brought north, but they always dis- 

 appoint, as the effort of growth is not 

 to make ears of grain, but to make tall 

 stalks and broad leaves. Indeed, corn 

 brought from a point only 100 miles 

 south will often bring great disappoint- 

 ment, as the grain on the ears seldom 

 hardens before frost. 



Cantaloupes. 



Thousands of tourists visiting southern 

 Europe and western Asia, especially 

 Persia, for in this latter country espe- 

 cially the cantaloupe is found in great 

 perfection, oibserve that many times they 

 are superior to those often obtained at 

 home; but of all the various experi- 

 mental lots of foreign seed brought to 

 America, not in one case out of twenty 

 has the fruit produced been fit to eat. 



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