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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 5, 1908. 



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The daffodil is the most popular flower 

 in England except the rose, and some 

 of the new varieties are sold at $100 and 

 more for a single bulb. They are beau- 

 tifully crimped, and the mouth of the 

 trumpet is so full that sometimes the 

 diameter almost equals the depth. Who 

 would care for a daffodil that has not a 

 crimped edgef So I am in favor of A. 

 E. Kunderd's ruffled gladioli and will 

 give him credit for doing what any of us 

 might have done long ago if we had 

 only recognized a good thing when we 

 saw it. 



In regard to a gladiolus society, there 

 is a pressing need of it. The flower is 

 becoming exceedingly popular and is ex- 

 tensively advertised, and yet many grow- 

 ers use the plural for the singular and 

 vice versa, and are unable to pronounce 

 either one correctly. Varieties are being 

 grown and put on the market under two 

 or more names, and growers are not at 

 all agreed on the characteristics of a 

 good variety. We need a gladiolus so- 

 ciety to set us all right, so that we can 

 help each other instead of pulling apart. 



M. Crawford. 



VEGETABLE BREEDING. 



(A paper by W. Van Fleet, of Little Silver, 

 N. J., read at the meeting of the National 

 Council of Horticulture, Jamestown, Va., Sep- 

 tember 23, 1907.] 



The breeding of vegetables doubtless 

 began when primitive man ceased wholly 

 to rely on the wild products of nature. 

 The dawning intelligence that made the 

 beginnings of plant culture would soon 

 lead to discrimination in varieties and 

 the perpetuation by various propagative 

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 day cannot with reasonable certainty be 

 traced back to their primitive species. 

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that an edible root similar to the Stu- 

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