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The Weekly Rorists' Review^ 



March 19, 1908. 



VIGKQUAUTY ASTERS 



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varieties to maintain purity of type, but 

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gladiolus society, as Mr. Cowee suggests, 

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VEGETABLE BREEDING. 



Continuing the subject of the improve- 

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Celery. 



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